MAR 25
George Sidney, Kiss Me, Kate.  Handouts due at class time.
    Lindsay Duquette, Kevin Mealey, Gillian Tremblay, Megan Wisecarver.

APR 1
Andrew McLaglen, McLintock! Handouts due at class time.
    Jesse Camacho, Adrienne Ginter, Shannon Prentice, Brian Weiss.

APR 8
Gil Junger, 10 Things I Hate About You.  Handouts due at class time.
    Kelly Blizzard, Ally Broehm, Shelley Burke, Emily Falkenstein, Jess York.

APR 15
Laurence Olivier, Hamlet. Handouts due at class time.
     Matthew Doucet, Dan Fallon, Ida Kuburovic, Nan Littlefield, Manouchka Poinson.

APR 17
Franco Zeffirelli, Hamlet. Handouts due at class time.
     Christopher Arcand, Jesse Broehl, Jared Powers, Christy Watts.

APR 24
Kenneth Branagh, Hamlet. Handouts due at class time.
     Evan Czyzowski, Shannan Goff, Sean Leslie, Ryan Levasseur, Tracy Tompkins.

MAY 1
Almereyda, Hamlet. Handouts due at class time.
     John Giova, Allison Hyatt, Liz Kenny, Jon Roberts.

Note that you must make 32 copies of your handout for the class.  Your handout must be no more than one page, front and back (12 point type or higher);  you may include illustrations or diagrams if you like.  You must indicate that you have read and digested the relevant criticism or scholarship on your film.  Some suggested topics or issues:

• scholarship or criticism on the film (what have been the major perspectives on this film?  Can you give those perspectives labels and describe them briefly?)
• relationship of the film to Shakespeare's script (what major cuts, additions, or changes were made to the script?  What plot events were portrayed, added to, changed, or cut?  How were characters re-motivated?  Were new characters added, or characters cut?  Did the filmmaker use visual images to enhance, change, or substitute for Shakespeare's language?)
• adaptational style of the film (would you describe this film as "theatrical," "realistic," or "filmic" in its approach to adaptation?  How did the filmmaker use established film genres, like the musical or Western?  How to describe and illustrate the visual "look" of the film, its dominant palette, lighting, editing style, shot types, set design, costuming?  How does the film use its stars and their established star personae?)
• focused perspective on the film (focus on a single approach to or aspect of a film–on its portrayal of women characters or on, say, Iago's relationship to Othello–and demonstrate how that issue is addressed in several key scenes.  Remember to consult the relevant scholarship and criticism)
• close examination of a single key scene (offer a detailed examination of a single key scene, suggesting somewhere on your handout what themes, issues or problems makes this scene so crucial to the film as a whole)