Week commencing 25 October

Monday:

Naremore, James, ‘Low Is High. Budgets and Critical Discrimination’, in More Than Night, pp.
136-166.*

King lear overview

Tuesday

King Lear

Weds: Off

Thursday

(FILM 2002 Reserve Collection):Tom Gunning: “Film Form for a New Audience: Time,
the Narrator’s Voice and Character Psychology” from D.W. Griffith and The Origins
of American Narrative Film (1994) (FI2002 Reserve Collection, also the book is in
short loan) pp. 85-130.

Friday:

E. Ann Kaplan: ‘The Dark Continent of Film Noir: Race, Displacement and Metaphor in
Tourneur’s Cat People (1942) and Welles’ The Lady From Shanghai (1948)’, in E. Ann Kaplan
(ed.): Women in Film Noir (new edition), BFI 1998.

Eric Somer, ‘The Noir-Horror of Cat People (1942)’ in Alain Silver, James Ursini: Film Noir
Reader 4, pp. 191-205.