PHIL 490: PHILOSOPHY AND FILM
FILM SCHEDULE
9/16/2009
Movie viewings: Tuesday and Thursday, 6:00 PM, Paul Meek Library, Media Services seminar room, or individual viewing by arrangement.
WEEK 1:
Reading:
Thomas Wartenberg, “Philosophy and Film”: plato.stanford.edu/entries/film
Films:
Battleship Potemkin: see for Wednesday class (Netflix instant viewing, Archive.org, UTM DVD VHS)
The Man from Earth: see for Friday class (Netflix instant viewing)
WEEK 2:
Reading:
Errol Morris interview: http://www.errolmorris.com/content/eyecontact/interrotron.html
Films:
Standard Operating Procedure: see for Wednesday class (Netflix instant viewing, UTM DVD)
The Searchers: see for Friday class (UTM DVD VHS #210)
Screening in library media room Thursday, Sept 10, 6:00
WEEK 3
Reading:
Gilmore: Chapter 1 (Ford’s “The Searchers”)
Films:
Clockwork Orange: see for Wednesday class (Netflix instant viewing, UTM DVD VHS #2111, 3399)
King Corn: see for Friday class (Netflix instant viewing, UTM DVD)
WEEK 4:
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 1 (Plato’s Picture Show)
Films:
Cassablanca (Netflix instant viewing, UTM DVD)
Vertigo (Netflix instant viewing, UTM DVD)
WEEK 5:
Exam on Wednesday
The exam will cover all (1) the Wartenberg essay, (2) the Morris interview, (3) Gilmore Chapter 1 (access online e-text linked from main course page), (4) Falzon Chapter 1, sections 1 and 2 (“Plato’s cave” and “Descartes, dreams and Demons”; use book or access online e-text linked from main course page). I will also ask you simple questions on the assigned films from weeks 1-4 to see that you’ve viewed them (not the films in week 5)
Reading:
Falzon: continue with Chapter 1
Films:
The Education of Shelby Knox (Netflix instant viewing)
Dr. Strangelove (UTM DVD), (Netflix instant viewing)
WEEK 6:
Writing assignment do by Wednesday evening (submit through email)
See “Writing Assignments” on course web page”
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 2
Films:
Religulous (UTM DVD)
Screening in library media room Tuesday, Oct. 6, 6:00
Crimes and Misdemeanors (UTM DVD)
Screening in library media room Thursday, Oct. 8, 6:00
WEEK 7:
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 3
WEEK 8:
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 3
Films:
WEEK 9:
Reading
Falzon: Chapter 3
WEEK 10
Exam on Wednesday
WEEK 11:
Films:
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Netflix instant viewing)
Fast, Cheap, and out of control
Blade runner
WEEK 12:
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 4
Films:
Full metal jacket
Metropolis: see for Friday; screening in library media room Thursday, Nov. 19, 6:00
WEEK 13:
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 4
Films:
Lifeboat
Gattaca
WEEK 14:
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 5
Films:
Phenomenon
The Trial
WEEK 15:
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 5
Films:
FALZON (Christopher Falzon, Philosophy Goes to the Movies, New York: Routledge, 2002)
(Online review of Falzon’s book: http://www.film-philosophy.com/2007v11n3/bolton.pdf)
Antz (UTM DVD)
All of me (UTM DVD)
Casablanca (UTM DVD VHS #267), (Netflix instant viewing)
Clockwork orange (UTM DVD VHS #2111, 3399), (Netflix instant viewing)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (UTM DVD), (Netflix instant viewing)
Dr. Strangelove (UTM DVD), (Netflix instant viewing)
High Noon (UTM DVD VHS #182)
Invasion of the body Snatchers (UTM DVD VHS #181)
Matrix (UTM DVD)
Modern Times (UTM DVD, VHS #34, 1780) (archive.org)
Name of the Rose (UTM DVD, VHS #472)
1984 (UTM DVD), (Netflix instant viewing)
Total Recall (UTM DVD)
Truman Show (UTM VHS #4535)
Twelve Angry men (UTM DVD, VHS #1162)
GILMORE (Richard A. Gilmore, Doing Philosophy at the Movies, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005)
(Online review of Gilmore’s book: http://www.film-philosophy.com/2006v10n3/little.pdf)
The Searchers (UTM DVD VHS #210)
Vertigo (UTM DVD), (Netflix instant viewing)
Fargo (UTM DVD)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (UTM DVD), (Netflix instant viewing)
The Terminator (UTM DVD)
12 Monkeys (UTM DVD)
Trainspotting (UTM DVD)
Matrix (UTM DVD)
OTHERS ON NETFLIX INSTANT VIEWING (we’ll be seeing perhaps five of these, but all are great)
Primer
A Crude Awakening
The Weather Underground
Dark Days
Supersize me (UTM DVD)
Breaker Morant
The Last Supper
Rebel Without a Cause
39 Steps
* * * *
City of joy
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind
Full metal jacket
Gattaca
Groundhog day
Hilary and Jackie
Phenomenon
SLC punk
The trial
* * * *
The Man from Earth
King Corn (UTM DVD)
Standard Operating Procedure (UTM DVD)
Blade runner
Fast, Cheap, and out of control
Metropolis
Lifeboat
OTHERS ON ARCHIVE.ORG (we’ll be seeing perhaps two of these, but all are classics)
The General (UTM VHS #101)
Birth of a Nation (UTM DVD VHS)
Battleship Potemkin (UTM DVD VHS)
Triumph of the Will (UTM VHS #1807)