PGI 3102 - Estudos de Gênero: Literatura e Cinema – Module Film
Professor Anelise R. Corseuil
Office Hours: by appointment. Room 123
E-mail:corseuil@cce.ufsc.br
Description: in this module we will work with film theory and film analysis. You will be
introduced to film elements and close-readings of films. We will be reading theoretical
material on narrative, mise-en-scène, editing, sound and photography.
Required texts: the bibliographical material will be available on-line as PDF material and
the films are available at Laboratório de Línguas, CCE building (A).
Evaluation: oral presentation (30%), final paper 70% (1500 words).
May 20 – Introductory Class – Elements of Film (mise-en-scène)
Required reading:
- David Bordwell, Film Art: An Introduction (pages 112-161);
- Required film: Orson Welles Citizen Kane.
Suggested reading:
- Robert Scholes, Elements of Film - section on "Film" (pages 451-72);
May 27th – Elements of Film (cinematography, editing and sound)
Required reading:
- David Bordwell, Film Art: An Introduction,.(pages 162-303)
Required films:
- Einsenstein´s Potemkin; Orson Welles´s Touch of Evil; Tony Scott´s The Hunger
June 3rd - Adaptation and Narrative
Required reading:
- Chatman´s "What Novels Can Do that Films Can´t (and Vice Versa)";
- Andre Bazin, “Adaptation, or the cinema as digest”. In Film Adaptation. James
Naremore. Ed. New Jersey: Rutgers U. P. 2000. PP. 19-27.
Readings and films:
- Maurier Du Daphne´s “The Birds” and Hitchcock´s The Birds.
Films:
- Hector Babenco`s Kiss of the Spider Woman. / Ang Lee´s Life of Pi.
June 10th - Paper presentations in groups of four
Students are required to present a comparative analysis of a film based on a short-story or a
novel.
Select one of the following issues in order to analyze the literary and filmic texts:
1. Narrative structure and editing;
2. Themes;
3. Setting/mise-en-scene;
4. Sound/dialogues;
5. Characterization/acting.
All these elements should be seen in conjunction with the overall tone and historical
contextualization of each work. For each of these topics there is a theoretical chapter in
Bordwell´s Film Art and in Gianetti´s Understanding Movies, as well as material from
suggested sources. All texts and topics for presentation should be previously discussed
with me.
Selected Bibliography (theory)
Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: an Introduction. New York: The
McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (5th ed), 1997.
Bordwell, David, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson. The Classical Hollywood Cinema:
Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
Gianetti, Louis. Understanding Movies (5th ed.).Englewood cliffs. Prentice hall, 1990.
Mast,Gerald et al., eds. Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. New York and
Oxford: oxford Univ. Press, 1992 (4th edition), 1992.
Naremore, James (ed.). Film Adaptation. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Scholes, Robert, et al., eds. Elements of Literature: Essay, Fiction, Poetry, Drama and
Film. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press (4th ed.), 1991.
Stam, Robert, Robert Burgoyne and Sandy Flitterman Lewis. New Vocabularies in Film
Semiotics. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Stam, Robert and Tobby Miller. Film and Theory: an Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
Filmography (films that will be discussed in class):
Orson Welles. Citizen Kane, Touch Of Evil;
Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds.
Sergei Eisenstein, Potemkin
Hector Babenco Kiss of the Spider Woman
Ang Lee Life of Pi
Bibliography – Literary texts - Possible texts for your presentations and final papers
Short-stories and novels and filmic adaptations
Aldiss, Brian. “Super-toys Last All Summer Long”. – Spielberg´s Artificial Intelligence.
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre (Robert Stevenson, 1944, film)
Carver, Raymond. “A Small, Good Thing”. (Shortcuts, film by Robert Altman)
Chandler, Raymond. Double Indemnity. (Huston´s Double Indemnity)
E M Forster, 1980, A Room with A View A Room with a View (James Ivory, 1985, film)
Hammet. Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon ( Huston´s The Maltese Falcon).
Hemingway, Ernest. “Hills Like White Elephants”.
Joyce, James. “The Dead”. (Huston´s The Dead).
Maurier, Daphne Du. Rebecca (1938). Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940, film)
Poe´s short-stories have been adapted by different directors (Frederico Fellini, Roger Vadin
and Louis Malle).
Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence, 1986. – Scorsese´s The Age of Innocence.
Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth.(Movie by Gilliam Anderson. The House of Mirth
Irving, Washington. “The legend of Sleepy Hollow” (Sleepy Hollow, film by Tim Burton,
1999).
Woolf, Virginia. Orlando (Sally Potter´s Orlando).
Other films and adaptations, as possible topics for the final paper and presentation, are
welcome.