Supplementary
films for review – Spring 2016
T FEB 2 It Happened One Night (1934) Brittny Meredith
T FEB 9 Jezebel (1938) Carly West
T FEB
16 Steamboat
Round the Bend (1935) Rob Jones
Fury
(1936) Dusty Freund
T FEB 24 Sahara (1943) Ryan Walker
The
Great Dictator (1940) Stephanie Lake
T MAR 1 Destry Rides Again (1939) Tessa Willoughby
Ghada Alshehri
Jesse
James (1939) Julia
Perejda
Sana
Rankin
T MAR 8 Tovarich
(1937) Rob
Jones
Camille
(1936) Edwina
Cooper
T MAR 15 The Old Maid (1939) Margaret Schuh
Now,
Voyager (1942) Sana
Rankin
T APR 5 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Julia Perejda
Ghada Alshehri
You
Can’t Take It with You (1938) Stephanie Lake
Meet
John Doe (1941) Edwina
Cooper
Margaret
Schuh
T APR 12 Air Force (1943) Tessa
Willoughby
T APR 19 Detour (1945) Dusty Freund
Ryan
Walker
The Big
Sleep (1946) Carly
West
Brittny Meredith
The two film reviews that will be
required of you this term have a twofold purpose: they will help to supplement
the class's range of reference to the era we study, and they will give you
practice in writing concisely and thoroughly about film. To that end they should be no more than 500
words long (about one single-spaced page, typed). You should try in this space
not only to summarize the film's plot but also to offer some observations about
its relevance to our generic or cultural or theoretical concerns in class--and
of course you should feel free to offer those observations in class and on the
discussion board as well as in your reviews.
We will post the reviews wiki-style
on MyGateway, for everyone's reference. Please send the review to me
(fgrady@umsl.edu) as an attachment, by the end of the day after the relevant
class meeting. Once I’ve reviewed the
review, you can post it by following these
instructions, which can also be found in the “Docs and Assignments”
section.
An indispensable reference site for film is the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com); in addition the Turner Classic Movies website (www.tcm.com) offers a lot of information about the movies