Cinema Studies, Innis College, University of Toronto

INI 423H: MELODRAMA
Schedule of Films Screenings Spring 2004

Professor Kay Armatage, Innis College Rm 224.
Tel. 416-978-8572; Fax 416-978-5503. Email Kay.Armatage@utoronto.ca

ALL FILM SCREENINGS IN RM. 312, INNIS COLLEGE

Mon. Jan 5 Introduction & Course Mechanics
The Lonely Villa, D.W. Griffith, USA, 1909 (8 min.) 
Enoch Arden, D.W. Griffith, USA, 1911 (17 min.)
The Mothering Heart, D.W. Griffith, USA, 1913 (24 min.) 
Mon. Jan. 12

Orphans of the Storm, D.W. Griffith, USA, 1921. 

Mon. Jan. 19

Broken Blossoms, D.W. Griffith, USA, 1919 (90 min.)

Mon. Jan. 26 The Blot, Lois Weber, USA, 1921 (80 min.)
Too Wise Wives, Lois Weber, USA, 1921 (80 min.)
Mon. Feb 2 Within Our Gates (La Negra). Oscar Michaux, USA, 1919 (79 min.)
The Scar of Shame. Frank Peregini, USA, 1927 (80 min.).
Mon. Feb 9 Back to God's Country. Nell Shipman, Canada, 1919.
Mon. Feb 16

Reading Week - No Class

Mon. Feb. 23

The Perils of Pauline or some other serial.

Mon. Mar. 1

Stella Dallas, King Vidor, USA, 1937 (105 min.)

Mon. Mar. 8

Abismos de pasión (Wuthering Heights), Luis Bunuel, Mexico, 1954 (91 min.)

Mon. Mar. 15 Written on the Wind, Douglas Sirk, USA, 1956 (100 min.)
Mon. Mar.22 Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk, USA, 1958 (125 min.)
Mon. Mar. 29 Ali, Fear Eats the Soul, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany, 1973 (93 min.)
Mon. Apr. 5 Raise the Red Lantern, Zhang Yimou, China, 1991 (125 min.)

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