FALL 2007

Introduction

Week 1

8/23     Introduction: Shane

The Hollywood Western

Week 2

8/28    Stagecoach

8/30    “Spectator-in-the-Text”

Week 3

9/4    High Noon

9/6    “A Woman’s Gotta Do…”

Week 4

9/11    The Searchers

9/13    “An American Dilemma”

    and “Darkening Ethan”

Sergio Leone

Week 5

9/18    For a Fistful of Dollars

9/20    “Which Way Is America?”

Week 6

9/25    The Good, the Bad

    and the Ugly

9/27    “Cowboys and Free Markets”

Week 7

10/2    Once Upon a Time in the West

10/4    “The Spaghetti Western”

 

Spaghetti Variations

Week 8

10/9    The Great Silence

10/11    paper

Week 9

10/16    A Bullet for the General

10/18    “The White Man’s Muscles”

Week 10

10/23    Compañeros

10/25    “Death”

Week 11

10/30    Keoma

11/1    “Maximus Melodramaticus”

Week 12

11/6    Django

11/8    “Women and Language”

Week 13

11/13    They Call Me Trinity

11/15    “The Man with No Name”

Week 14

11/20    Thanksgiving

11/22    Thanksgiving

Week 15

11/27    Django, Kill!

11/29    “The Sadomasochist in the Closet”

Conclusions

Week 16

12/4    The Wild Bunch

12/12    final exam 1:30-4:30