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Scandinavian 115
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Lynn Wilkinson
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Introduction to Scandinavian Drama and Film
Scandinavia has produced some of the greatest modern dramatists and flimmakers.
This course will provide an introduction to and overview of their work.
We will begin with several comedies by the Danish/Norwegian playwright, Ludvig
Holberg (1684-1754). We will then turn to Bergman's film production of Mozart's
The Magic Flute, a work which not only brings together film and the theater, but
also takes us back to the eighteenth century and the conditions for performance
at the time the first major Scandinavian theatrical works were produced. We will
finish our section on the theater with some major plays by Ibsen and Strindberg.
The second half of the course will begin with silent films by the Swedish filmmakers,
Viktor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller. We will then turn to the work of the Danish
filmmaker, Carl Dreyer, focusing on his The Master of the House, Day of Wrath and
Ordet. Finally, we will look at five works by Ingmar Bergman, Smiles of a Summer
Night, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Cries and Whispers, and Fanny
and Alexander.
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Giannetti:
Brockett:
Holberg:
Ibsen:
Stindberg:
Dreyer:
Cowie:
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Understanding Movies 5th edition
The Essential Theater
Jeppe of the Hill and Other Plays, trans. Argetsinger and Rossel
Plays, ed. and trans. Michael Meyer, vols. 2, 3
Five Plays, ed. and trans. Carlson
Dreyer in Double Reflection
Ingmar Bergman: A Critical Biography
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Course Reader:
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Stanton:
Freud:
Strindberg:
Strindberg:
Giannetti:
Sontag:
Lacan:
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"The Well-Made Play and the Modern Theater"
"Some Character-Types Met with in Psychoanalysis"
"Soul Murder"
"The Stronger"
"Persona"
"Persona: The Film in Depth"
"The Mirror Stage"
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Week One
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Background Reading:
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Brockett, ch. 1
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Feb. 4
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Introduction; Holberg and his time
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Week Two
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Background Reading:
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Brockett, chs. 2 and 3
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Feb. 9
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Holberg:
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Pernilla's Brief Experience as a Lady
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Feb. 11
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Holberg:
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Ulysses von Ithacia
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Week Three
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Background Reading:
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Brockett, chs. 6 and 7
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Evening:
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Bergman:
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Mozart's The Magic Flute; The Drottningholm Court Theater
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Feb. 16
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Holberg:
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Mozart, and the conventions of the eighteenth-century theater
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Feb. 18
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Ibsen:
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A Doll House
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Week Four
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Background Reading:
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Brockett, ch. 8
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Evening:
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Losey:
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Ibsen's A Doll House
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Feb. 23
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Ibsen:
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An Enemy of the People
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Feb. 25
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Ibsen:
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Romersholm
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Freud:
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"Some Character-Types Met with in Psychoanalysis"
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Week Five
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Evening:
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Nunn:
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Hedda Gabler
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Sjöberg:
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Miss Julie
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Mar. 2
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Ibsen:
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Hedda Gabler
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Mar. 4
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Strindberg:
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Miss Julie
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Week Six
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Background Reading:
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Brockett, ch.9
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Evening:
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Bergman:
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After the Rehearsal
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Mar. 9
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Strindberg:
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The Stronger, "Soul Murder", The Ghost Sonata
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Mar. 11
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Strindberg:
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A Dream Play
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Week Seven
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Background Reading:
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Giannetti, chapters 1 and 2
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Evening:
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Selections by Lumiére and Meliés
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Sjöström:
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The Phantom Chariot
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March 16
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Avant-garde theater and silent film
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March 18
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Sjöström:
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The Phantom Chariot
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Week Eight
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Background Reading:
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Giannetti, chapters 3 and 4
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Evening:
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Sjöström:
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The Outlaw and His Wife
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Stiller:
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Thomas Graal's Best Child
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March 23
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Sjöström and the filming of the natural world
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March 25
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Stiller and comedy
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Week Nine
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Background Reading:
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Giannetti, chapters 5 and 6
Dreyer: Selections
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Evening:
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Dreyer:
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The Master of the House, Day of Wrath
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April 6
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Dreyer:
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The Master of the House
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April 8
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Dreyer:
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Day of Wrath
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Week Ten
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Background Reading:
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Giannetti, chapters 7 and 8
Cowie, chapters 1-3; 8
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Evening:
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Dreyer:
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Ordet
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Bergman:
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Smiles of a Summer Night
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April 13
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Dreyer:
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Ordet
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April 15
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Bergman:
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Smiles of a Summer Night
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Week Eleven
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Background Reading:
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Giannetti, chapters 9 and 10
Cowie, chapters 9-11
Sontag on Persona
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Evening:
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Bergman:
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Wild Strawberries, Persona
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April 20
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Wild Strawberries
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April 22
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Persona
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Week Twelve
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Background Reading:
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Cowie, chapters 12-16
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Evening:
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Bergman:
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Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander
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April 27
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Cries and Whispers
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April 29
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Fanny and Alexander
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