STUDY GUIDE 4
Week 4 Guide to Readings and Film Viewing: What You Need to Know
1. Who was Jane Austen? Identify her canon of literary works.
2. How have the new technologies in film making been used in recent years to capture the "sense and sensibilities"of the late 18th-early 19th century of Austen's world? For example, what kinds of lighting techniques does Ang Lee use to simulate the 19th century ambience?
3. How has Ang Lee used his directorial instincts and skills to capture the climate of Austen's world? How does the movie portray the dualism of the different characters? Compare and contrast the personalities who exhibit opposite personality traits and ways of responding to their circumstances.
4. What are some of the key areas of tension in Sense and Sensibility? How do some of these tensions parallel the ones seen in the three previous films you have seen although they are set worlds apart? Why has this film been labeled a "women's" movie?
5. What is "Bollywood" and what are some of the characteristics of Bollywood movies? How has the director of Bride and Prejudice adapted the theme of
marriage and daughters to the Indian setting?
6. What is Structuralist FIlm Theory?