Robert F. Mulligan, Ph.D.
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THE
ECONOMIC FILM PROJECT
Each semester will feature a different theatrical release
film of some social and economic relevance, and also of historical
significance, which will be discussed periodically in class throughout the
semester.
Fall 2001 Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941) |
Spring 2002 David Lean's Great Expectations (1948) |
Fall 2002 Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well
(1960) |
Spring 2003 Alexander Korda's Lady Hamilton (1941) |
Fall 2003 Fritz Lang's Metropolis
(1926) |
Spring 2004 Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon
(1950) |
Laurence Olivier's Richard III
(1956) |
Spring 2005 Akira Kurosawa's High and Low
(1963) |
Fall 2005 Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden
Fortress (1958) |
Spring 2006 Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru
(1952) |
Fall 2006 Ishiro Honda's Godzilla (1954) |
Spring 2007 King Vidor's The Fountainhead
(1949) from the novel by Ayn Rand |
Fall 2007 Scholarly leave semester |
Spring 2008 Francois Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451
(1966) from the novel by Ray Bradbury |
Fall 2008 Fred M. Wilcox's Forbidden Planet
(1956) |
Spring 2009 Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause
(1955) |
Fall 2009 John Huston's Moby Dick (1956)
from the novel by Herman Melville |
Spring 2010 Robert Stevenson's Jane Eyre (1943)
from the novel by Charlotte Brontë |
Fall 2010 William Wyler's The Heiress (1949) |
Spring 2011 Luchino Visconti's Il Gattopardo
(1963) from the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa |
Fall 2011 Joseph L. Mankeiwitcz's Dragonwyck
(1943) from the novel by Anya Seton |
Spring 2012 George Stevens' Giant (1956) from the
novel by Edna Ferber |
Fall 2012 Vincente Minelli's The Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse (1962) from the novel by Vincente
Blasco Ibanez |
Spring 2013 Michael Curtiz's
The Egyptian
(1954) from the novel by Mika Waltari |
Fall 2013 Howard Hawks' Land of the Pharaohs
(1955) |
Spring 2014 William Cameron Menzies’ Things to Come
(1936) by H.G. Wells |
Fall 2014 Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible Part I (1944) & Part II (1946) |
Spring 2015 Franklin J. Shaffner’s Nicholas and
Alexandra (1970) from the book by Robert K. Massie |
Fall 2015 Val Guest’s The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1962) |
Spring 2016 Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog
(1949) |
Fall 2016 Akira Kurosawa's The Throne of Blood
(1957) |
Spring 2017 Vincente Minelli's Madame Bovary (1948)
from the novel by Gustave Flaubert |
Kurt Neumann's Kronos
(1957) |
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Edmund Goulding's
The Razor's Edge
(1946) from the novel by W. Somerset Maugham |
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Nunnally Johnson's The
Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1956) from the novel by Sloan Wilson |
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Orson Welles' The Stranger (1946) |
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George Stephens' Diary of Anne Frank (1959) |
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Benjamin Ross's RKO 281 (1999) |
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David Lean's Breaking the Sound Barrier (1952) by
Terence Rattigan |
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Orson Welles' The Trial (1963) from the novel by
Franz Kafka |
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Carol Reed's The Third Man (1950) |
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Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita
(1960) |
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Orson Welles' The Trial (1963) from the novel by
Franz Kafka |
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Fielder Cook's Patterns (1956) by Rod Serling |
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Federico Fellini's Il Bidone (The Swindle)
(1955) |
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Henry Koster's
No Higway in
the Sky (1951) from the novel by Nevil Shute |
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Elia Kazan's East
of Eden (1955) from the novel by John Steinbeck |
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Peter Glenville's Becket (1964) by Jean Anouilh |
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William Wyler's The Big Country (1958) |
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Val Guest's Quatermass II (1957) by Nigel Kneal |
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Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons
(1942) from the novel by Booth Tarkington |
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Orson Welles' Chimes at |
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Michael Curtiz's
Casablanca (1942) |
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Kimiyoshi Yasuda's Dai Majin (1966) |
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James Foley's Glengary Glen Ross (1992) |
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Edgar G. Ulmer's The Man From Planet X (1951) |
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Richard Thorpe's Ivanhoe (1952) from the novel by
Walter Scott |
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Richard Wallace's Sinbad the Sailor (1947) |
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Gabriel Pascal's Major Barbara (1941) by George Bernard
Shaw |
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Karel Zeman's Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1961) |
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Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly (1955) from the novel
by Mickey Spillane |
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John Frankenheimer's
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) from
the novel by Richard Condon |
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Robert Mulligan's To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) from the
novel by Harper Lee |