Smart, Film Noir Conventions in the Big Sleep, Bear S Film Journal
Howard Hawks, The Big Sleep (1946) / Screening
2 / 9 Oct / ‘Film Noir Conventions in The Big Sleep’ / N. Morita
Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity (1944) / Screening
3 / 16 Oct / No seminar
No screening
4 / 23 Oct / ‘Dark Side of Masculinity’ / Taketo O./Micki N.
Jacques Turner, Out of the Past (1947) / Screening
5 / 30 Oct / ‘Actively Retroactive’ / Gabrielle Kamie
Carol Reed, The Third Man (1952) / Screening
6 / 6 Nov / ‘The Trouble with Harry’ / Monica Chang/Gaeun Chu
Orson Welles, Touch of Evil (1958) / Screening
7 / 13 Nov / ‘Living on Noir Borders’ / Ayaka Fujimoto
Louis Malle, Elevator to the Gallows (1958) / Screening
8 / 20 Nov / ‘French Connection’ / Christy Hsieh
Masahiro Shinoda, Pale Flower (1962) / Screening
9 / 27 Nov / ‘Masahiro Shinoda’ / Ko Kamiya/Yume Ito
Roman Polanski, Chinatown (1974) / Screening
10 / 4 Dec / No Seminar
No Screening / Screening
11 / 11 Dec / ‘The Quest: Errands into the Maze’ / Hikaru Kodama
Lawrence Kasdan, Body Heat (1981) / Screening
12 / 18 Dec / ‘The Wounds of Desire’ / Saimi K/Mayuko T.
Joël and Ethan Cohen, Blood Simple (1984) / Screening
13 / 15 Jan / ‘Melodrama and Mischance’ / Johnathan Sullivan
Claude Chabrol, La Cérémoniei (1995) / Screening
14 / 22 Jan / ‘The Evolution of the Crime Drama’ / Sumire T/Himeko U.
Derek Yee, Shinjuku Incident (2009) / Screening
15 / 29 Jan / ‘Darker than Dark’ / Anthony P/Joon Hee K.
Week 2: Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton, ‘Towards a Definition of Film Noir,’ in Alain Silver and James Ursini, Film Noir: Reader, New York: Limelight, 2003
Christopher Mallon, ‘Double Indemnity: film noir and the dark side of masculinity,’ Screen Education, 79, Oct. 2015
Week 4: Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg, ‘Noir Cinema,’ Silver and Ursini, op. cit.
Smart, ‘Film Noir Conventions in The Big Sleep,’ Bear’s Film Journal,
Week 5: Paul Schrader, ‘Notes on Film Noir,’ Silver and Ursini, op. cit.
Shannon Scott, ‘Actively Retroactive: On the Couch with Film Noir: Out of the Past: Lacan andFilm Noir by Ben Tyrer,’ Senses of Cinema
Week 6: Janey Place and Lowell Peterson, ‘Some Visual Motifs of Film Noir,’ Silver and Ursini, op. cit.
Elaine Lennon, ‘The Trouble with Harry: The Third Man (1949),’ Off Screen, Vol. 20, Issue 12, December 2016
Week 7: James Damico, Film Noir: A Modest Proposal,’ Silver and Ursini, op. cit.
Ryan Reft,’Living on Noir Borders: Race, Sexuality, and Law Enforcement in Touch of Evil and Crimson Kimono,’ Tropics of Meta, October 8, 2013
Week 8: Foster Hirsch, ‘French Connection,’ Detours and Lost Highway: A Map of Neo-Noir, New York: Limelight, 1999
Week 9: Chris Desjardins, ‘Masahiro Shinoda,’ Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film, I.B. Tauris, 2005
Week 11: Foster Hirsch, ‘The Quest: Errands into the Maze,’ op. cit.
Week 12: Foster Hirsch, ‘The Wounds of Desire,’ ibid.
Week 13: Foster Hirsch, ‘Melodrama of Mischance,’ ibid.
Week 14: Claude Chabrol, ‘The Evolution of the Crime Drama,’ Alain Silver and James Ursini, Film Noir: Reader 2, op. cit.
Week 15: Stephen Teo, ‘Darker than Dark: Film Noir in Its Asian Contexts,’ in International Noir, eds., Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014
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