English 290/464/490
Taboo Love in Film and Literature
TuWeTh 10:30 AM - 1:55 PM
June 16 - July 12, 2008
MOVIE: Spike Lee, Jungle Fever (1991)
MOVIE: Jim Sharman, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
MOVIE: John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
MOVIE: Robert Altman, Fool for Love (1985)
MOVIE: Stephen Poliakoff, Close My Eyes (1991)
MOVIE: Adrian Lyne, Lolita (1997)
READING: James Baldwin, Another Country (1962)
READING, John Ford, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1633)
READING: Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839, handout)
READING: Thomas Mann, Death in Venice (1912)
READING: Yasunari Kawabata, House of the Sleeping Beauties and other stories
(1961).