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Hard Times Papers

  1. Purpose: To give students experience seeing/reading a film with a critical eye, to compare a film with a written version, and to understand how film works on the viewer in contrast to how a novel works on the reader.


  2. Procedures:

    1. Finish reading Charles Dickens, Hard Times prior to watching the video version.

    2. View Hard Times (1994) on Thursday, February 21, from 7:00-9:45 PM in the Granberg Room.

  3. Content:This is still another exercise in critical thinking. Reflect on your past experience with cinematic representations of history and literary texts. How does film represent a culture and its past? In what ways are claims to truth made through cinematic images? Consider what got left out from or added to the novel. How does this film version of Hard Times work visually? Is it postmodern?

    Aim for a paper of 2-3 pages, which is due Wednesday, February 27.