Lit and Film

This college-preparatory course provides another approach to studying English. Students will be required to read, analyze, and discuss all types of literary genres, specifically focusing on linguistic and cinematic text. In this course, students will study film as a narrative. Reflective, argumentative, and analytical writing will be required. One typed literary analysis term paper (LAP) will be required by each student. Turnitin.com will be used for all major essays and formal writing assignments. Every student needs to turn in a signed permission sheet to be able to watch some of the films assigned.

Course Texts

The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu

The Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel García Márquez

V for Vendetta, by Alan Moore

The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares

1984, by George Orwell

Akutagawa Ryunosuke stories “Rashomon” and “In a Grove”

Literary Analysis Paper (LAP) novel

Various essays, articles, short stories, and poems

*Other texts may be added to the course content as needed, and as time allows. Various thematically-related short stories, poems, essays and articles will also be read.