Course Introduction

Professor Annette Insdorf
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Tel.: (212) 854-1682
Office hours: TBA
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Class Meetings:
Thursdays, 2 - 5:45 pm
511 Dodge Hall

 

In studying such films as "The Unbearable Lighness of Being", "The Right Stuff", "Quills", "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", and "Henry and June", we explore how Kaufman is a visual stylist as well as a literate adapter of novels, and how his films - which often feel as
European as American - depict the complex interaction between the individual body and the social landscape.