Zawacki, Andrew
TR 2 :20 PM
Park Hall 0145
Fathers & daughters
This advanced seminar will engage both contemporary and classic cinema which concerns itself with father-daughter relationships as they have been variously expressed and imagined across cultures. While screening films regularly, we will also dive into compelling works of poetry and fiction, drama and memoir, essay and criticism. Each student will be responsible for an 18-20 page research paper at the end of semester; in developing their essays, students will submit an abstract, outline, and annotated bibliography in March. Please note there will be a pair of required screenings, as a full class, the evenings of Monday 2/12 and Monday 4/8. All other film viewings will be done by students independently via free streaming services Kanopy, Swank, and YouTube.
Films:
Lynne Sachs, Film About a Father Who (2020, 73 min.)
Sofia Ford Coppola, Somewhere (2010, 98 min.)
Yasujirō Ozu, Late Spring (1949, 108 min.)
Akira Kurosawa, Ran (1965, 162 min.)
Sophie Deraspe, Antigone (2019, 109 min.)
Maryam Keshavarz, Circumstance (2011, 108 min.)
Otto Preminger, Bonjour, Tristesse (1954, 94 min.)
Wim Wenders, Alice in the Cities (1974, 110 min.)
Texts:
Gennady Aygi, Child-And-Rose
Judith Butler, Antigone’s Claim
Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
Henry James, Washington Square
Gayl Jones, Corregidora
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear
Sophocles, Antigone, tr. Robert Fagles
lê thi diem thúy, The Gangster We Are All Looking For
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