You think you know Faulkner? This course offers a consideration of two less familiar novels. Also, the sequential Hollywood versions create an interesting story in themselves, cast with significant actors of the time. In sessions one and three, we will discuss each novel separately. In the second and fourth sessions we will screen the film versions. We will begin with the novel Sanctuary (1931) and its initial film, The Story of Temple Drake (1933), starring the spectacular Miriam Hopkins. Then we will study a later work, Intruder in the Dust (1948), and its same-titled 1949 film release, which pioneers perspectives on Southern racial conflicts, and an earlier take on the similar themed, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). Repeating Faulkner, perhaps, as you didn’t know him.
Note: 4 Tuesdays - class lengths differ on alternating days. See specific times shown below.