Extension 1 2009 - 2010

Module B: Texts and Ways of Thinking

Elective: After the Bomb

Suggested related material:

Fiction:

Catch 22, Joseph Heller

The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing

The Invisible Man, James Baldwin

On the Road, Jack Kerouac

The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles

The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

Catcher in the Rye, J D Salinger   http://www.levity.com/corduroy/salinger.htm

The spy Who Came in From the Cold, John Le Carre

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey

Run Rabbit Run, John Updike

Cry The Beloved Country, Alan Paton

Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut   http://www.vonnegut.com/

The End of the Road, John Barth

Welcome to Hard Times, E L Doctorow

The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski

V, Thomas Pynchon

The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank

The Naked Lunch, William S Burroughs

Brighton Rock, Graham Greene

Animal Farm, George Orwell

Drama:

Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller

All My Sons, Clifford Odets

Look back in Anger, John Osborne

The Caretaker, Harold Pinter

Flowers, Jean Genet

Film:

The Manchurian Candidate, dir. John Frankenheimer

Atomic Cafe, dir.

Graveyard of the Fireflies, dir.

Bout de Souffle (Breathless), Jean-Luc Godard

The Wages of Fear, Henri Georges Clouzot

The Bicycle Thieves, Francois Truffaut

Sunset Boulevard, dir. Billy Wilder

A Streetcar Named Desire, dir. Elia Kazan

Rebel Without a Cause, dir. Nicholas Ray

Tokyo Story, dir. Yasujiro Ozu

From Here to Eternity, Fred Zinneman

Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa

 Poetry:

Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Bob Dylan ?

Graphic Novel:

Maus, Art Spiegleman

Barefoot Gen, Nakazawa

Astro Boy, Osamu Tezuka

Visual Arts:

If you want to go down this road, I suggest you choose works that link to your prescribed texts in ways of thinking and choose more than one work to show you understand the works and know what you are saying.

Jasper Johns

Roy Lichtenstein

Andy Warhol

Mark Rothko