The Lit/Film Journal requires that you write eighteen (18) journal entries assigned for class, each of them completed before the specific class session as a means of preparing for discussion, and that you write seven (7) more self-generated entries responding to the films, books, and adaptations you encounter on your own during the semester. Entries might focus on books you have read or are reading which you analyze much as we analyze novels and plays in class or which you imagine being made into films; they might focus on films you have seen which have been adapted from books you are familiar with, analyzing them as adaptations; they might focus on films you have seen which you analyze in ways we have analyzed films in class. It may be prudent at this time to suggest that in a fifteen week course the self-generated portion of the journal requirement could be easily completed by writing one self-generated journal entry every other week.
Note: Because journals are meant to be kept as preparation for class discussion and should have been completed incrementally over the semester, no late journals will be accepted past the due date on the last class day of the semester.
Checklist of Journal Entries: Some Links to be added later
Introductory
Speculations
Journal #1: An Introductory Speculation
Journal #2: A Speculation on Alexander Nevsky
Journal
Entries on Henry V
Journal #3: Speculating on Shakespeare's Henry V--Acts 1 &
2
Journal #4: Speculating on Shakespeare's Henry V--Acts 3-5
Journal #5: Speculating on Olivier's Henry V
Journal #6: Speculating on
Branagh's Henry V
Journal
Entries on Joan of Arc
Journal #7: Speculating on Anderson's Joan of Lorraine
Journal #8: Speculating on Fleming's Joan of Arc
Journal #9: Speculating on Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc
Journal Entries on Casablanca and The Stranger
Journal #10: Speculating on
Casablanca
Journal #11: Speculating on The Stranger
Journal Entries on Short Stories
Journal #12: A
Speculation on Hemingway and Faulkner
Journal #13: A Speculation on
Screenwriting Hemingway and Faulkner
Journal
Entries on Rear Window
Journal #14: A Speculation on Woolrich's Rear Window
Journal #15: A Speculation on
Hitchcock's Rear Window
Journal
Entries on Slaughter-House Five
Journal #16: A Speculation on Vonnegut’s Slaughter-House Five
Journal #17: A Speculation on Hill's Slaughter-House Five
Final
Course Journal Entry
Journal #18: A Speculation on Literature and Film