Spellbound Beginnings and Endings in American Literature and Film

Lecturer: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Brandt Course number: 512.312 Winter Term 2016/17

Selected Bibliography

Primary Sources

Films Annie Hall. Dir. Woody Allen. United Artists, 1977. Boyhood. Dir. Richard Linklater. Universal Pictures, 2014. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Dir. George R. Hill. 20th Century Fox, 1969. Fight Club. Dir. David Fincher. 20th Century Fox, 1999. Inception. Dir. Christopher Nolan. Warner Bros. Pictures, 2010. Jaws. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Universal Pictures, 1975. Magnolia. Dir. Paul T. Anderson. New Line Cinema, 1999. Manhattan. Dir. Woody Allen. United Artists, 1979. Once Upon A Time in America. Dir. Sergio Leone. Warner Bros. Pictures, 1984. Psycho. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Paramount Pictures, 1960. Saw. Dir. James Wan. Lionsgate Films, 2004. Seven. Dir. David Fincher. New Line Cinema, 1995. Source Code. Dir. Duncan Jones. Summit Entertainment, 2011. Thelma & Louise. Dir. Ridley Scott. MGM, 1991. The Sixth Sense. Dir. M. Night Shyamalan. Buena Vista, 1999.

Literary Sources Auster, Paul. The Brooklyn Follies 2005. London: Faber and Faber, 2011. Bellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March. 1949. New York: Penguin, 2001. Ellis, Bret Easton. American Psycho. New York: Vintage Books, 1991. Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. 1952. London: Penguin Classics, 2001. Harnid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist 2007. London: Penguin Books, 2008. Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. 1929. London: Vintage, 2013. Johnson, James Weldon. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. 1912. Ed. and Introd. William L. Andrews. New York: Penguin, 1990. Keller, Hellen. The Story of My Life. 1904. New York: Bantam Classic, 2005. Kincaid, Jamaica. The Autobiography of My Mother. 1996. New York: FSG Books, 2013. McInerney, Jay. Bright Lights, Big City. 1984. London: Vintage Books, 2006. Monette, Paul. Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story. San Francisco: Harper, 1992. Morrison, Toni. Beloved. 1987. London: Vintage Books, 2004. Morrison, Toni. Jazz. 1992. London: Vintage Books, 2005. Morrison, Toni. Paradise. 1997. London: Vintage Books, 1999. Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. 1951. London: Penguin Books, 1994. Shteyngart, Gary. Super Sad Love Story 2010. New York: Random House, 2011. Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. 1906. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. Solomon, Barabara H. ed. The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin. New York: Signet Classics, 1976 Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1884. London: Penguin Books, 2003. Updike, John. Terrorist 2006. London: Penguin Books, 2007. Vonnegurt, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five 1969. New York: Dell Publishing, 1991. Wright, Harold Bell and Elsbery W. Reynolds. When A Man’s a Man. 1916. Louisiana: Pelican Pouch, 2012.

Secondary Sources

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