american lit

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Movies and books

Here is a list of movies and books mentioned in class:


  • "The American Adam" by Richard W. Lewis
  • "Billy Budd" by Herman Melville
  • "The Ugly American" by William J. Lederer, and Eugene Burdick
  • "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James
  • "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare
  • "The Winter's Tale" by William Shakespeare
  • Home Alone
  • Twin Peaks
  • "The Geography of the Imagination" by Guy Davenport
  • Raising Arizona
  • All the Kings Men
  • The Simpson's episode: 'Rosebud'
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Daisy Miller
  • Carried Away
  • American Beauty
  • Six Feet Under
  • Lolita
  • The Natural
  • "War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells
  • "Beast in the Jungle" by Henry James
  • the story of 'Persephone and Hades'
  • Terms of endearment
  • Face off
  • Deadwood
  • The American
  • "Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte
  • "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austin
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe
  • "Little Red Riding Hood" by The Brother's Grimm
  • Casablanca
  • The labyrinth
  • Tall Tale
  • All about Eve
  • Road Stories:
  • Thelma and Louis
  • Road Trip
  • Harry and Tonto
  • Bonnie and Clyde
  • Lolita
  • Badlands
  • "Pilgrim's Progress" By John Bunyan
  • Wizard of Oz
  • Road to El Dorado
  • Road to Singapore
  • Road to Zanzibar
  • Road to Rio
  • Road to Hollywood
  • Road to Utopia
  • Road to Morocco
  • "The Habit of the Heart" by Robert Bellah, et.
  • The Departed
  • After Hours Education of Henry James
  • Pow Wow Highway
  • "The Odyssey" by Homer
  • Stranger Than Paradise
  • Coffee and Cigarettes
  • "The Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley
  • "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
  • The Fisher Kings
  • "Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
  • "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce
  • Rapunzel
  • Cashe
  • "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens
  • "Beloved" by Tony Morrison
  • "Gilgamesh"
  • "Aeneid" by Virgil
  • "Totem and Taboo" by Sigmund Freud
  • "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare
  • Groundhog Day
  • "The Raven" EAP
  • Pale Fire
  • "Finnegan's Wake" by James Joyce
  • End Game
  • My Dinner With Andre
  • "The Stand" by Steven King
  • "King Lear" by Shakespeare
  • Bagdad Cafe
  • The Sound of Music
  • "The Echo Maker" by Richard Powers
  • "Melmoth the Wanderer" by Charles Maturin
  • "Fall of the House of Usher" by EAP
  • "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Louis Carroll
  • "Nabokov's Blues" by Kurt Johnson and Stevens L. Coates, etc.
  • Stranger than Fiction
  • The Woodsman
  • The Professional
  • The Prestige
  • "Reading Lolita in Tehran" by Azar Nafisi
  • 'Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • "The Renaissance" by Walter Paton
  • Vertigo
  • "Ash Wednesday" by T.S. Eliot

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