WS 3050    Spring 2005    Powell and MacKay

Literary/Film Analysis

Choose from among these short stories:

"Picket Duty," Louisa May Alcott (1864)

"The Mission of Jane," Edith Wharton (1902)

"A Jury of Her Peers," Susan Glaspell (1917)

"The String Quartet," Virginia Woolf (1921)

"The Garden Party," Katherine Mansfield (1922)

"Sanctuary," Nella Larsen (1930)

"A Telephone Call," Dorothy Parker (1933)

"A Good Man is Hard to Find," Flannery O'Conner (1954)

Or choose from among these commercial films:

She Done Him Wrong (1933), screenplay by Mae West

Stage Door (1937), based on play by Edna Therber

The Women (1939), screenplay by Clare Booth Luce

Rebecca (1940), based on novel by Daphne DuMaurier, co-scripted by Joan Harrison

Cover Girl (1944), co-scripted by Virginia Van Upp

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), based on novel by Anita Loos

The Trouble with Angels (1966), directed by Ida Lupino

Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), based on book by Sue Kaufman, scripted by Eleanor Perry (directed by her husband Frank Perry)

Julia  (1977), based on novel by Lillian Hellman

My Brilliant Career (1980), scripted by Eleanor Witcombe, directed by Gillian Armstrong

Yentl (1983), directed by Barbra Streisand

Silkwood (1983), co-written by Nora Ephron

Daughters of the Dust (1991), written and directed by Julie Dash

Thelma and Louise, (1991), written by  Callie Khouri

Orlando, (1992), based on book by Virginia Woolf, directed by Sally Potter

Portrait of a Lady (1996), directed by Jane Campion

Deja Vu (1997), written and acted by Victoria Foyt & directed by her husband Henry Jaglom

Bride and Prejudice (2004), based on book by Jane Austen, directed by Gurinder Chadha