Film+and+Television



Please provide links.**
 * This is a page where we can post film clips that are related to the texts we read or the ideas we discuss in class. These could include film clips of //Hamlet// or //The Importance of Being Earnest// or parodies of Russian literature, documentaries on Mary Shelley, interviews with Doris Lessing.

[|Crime and Punishment (1935) Clip] [|Crime and Punishment (Russian) Clip] [|Love and Death (Clip)] [|Love and Death (Review)]

Columbo: media type="youtube" key="-tddaAfV4iM" height="344" width="425" Trailer for Columbo on DVD

media type="youtube" key="CywUV-vG1fw" height="344" width="425" Columbo movie directed by Steven Speilberg.

[|Link to an episode.]

Documentary on Unabomber: media type="youtube" key="ifG16oiz8Ho" height="344" width="425" "Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" and the philosophical resemblance between its antihero, Raskolnikov, and the Unabomber. What feels alien in American crime is the philosophical criminal of exceptional intelligence and humanitarian purpose, who commits murder out of uncompromising idealism. Then came the Unabomber. The melodramatic publication of his manifesto revealed him to be a visionary, a calculating social reasoner and messianic Utopian. The philosopher is one with the murderer. In the Unabomber, America has its own Raskolnikov. Like the Unabomber, Raskolnikov is a theorist who publishes a notorious essay." --from the New Yorker, [|Cynthia Ozick, A Critic at Large, “DOSTOYEVSKY'S UNABOMBER,”] [|The New Yorker] [|, February 24, 1997, p. 114]

media type="youtube" key="ghebQcqAT-U" height="344" width="425" BBC Special on Nietzsche