Writing the Wild: Nature, Culture, and American Literature

A series of five film evenings related to the topics and themes in the course are being screened outside of the seminar meeting times. You’ll find below the schedule, along with some background links and information about the respective works. The films will be screened in room B10, Building 41 (same building that we hold our seminar in), at 18:00 on Monday evenings.

• Nov. 20th: Into the Wild (dir. Sean Penn)

• Dec. 8th: Grizzly Man, directed by Werner Herzog: www.wernerherzog.com

• Jan. 12th (Date Change! please note!). Avante-garde Nature Night / Video Art. Selected excerpts from Walden: Diaries, Notes, Sketches (Jonas Mekas), Westpoint  (Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan), I Do Not Know What it Is I am Like (Bill Viola), Rivers and Tides_(Andy Goldsworthy): www.jonasmekas.com; www.billviola.com; www.nickjordan.info

•  Jan. 19th. Kundun, directed by Martin Scorsese

• Feb.  2nd. Kekexili: Mountain Patrol, directed by Chuan Lu.

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