ENGL 350 - Lost Worlds:Fiction & Film

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Trinity College

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The idea of a "lost" or undiscovered world has remained compelling from the adventures of Odysseus onward to the films of Steven Spielberg. Writers and filmmakers use images of a lost world to represent the "primitive," the powerful, the mysterious, the ideal -- whatever is not everyday experience. The course will compare a number of such representations, both in fiction and in film, examining how the media shape particular images as they do. Among the texts will be novels by Herman Melville, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Hilton, and Michael Crichton, and films like Lost Horizon, Jurassic Park, and both versions of The Lost World. Students should plan to be available on Monday evenings for film screenings. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural contex 1.00 units, Lecture

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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