Unpack the complexity of Ulysses by looking at three of its episodes: "Hades"(episode 6), "Nausicaa"(episode 13), and "Circe"(episode 15)—three of the most moving and compelling chapters in the novel. By studying these three episodes, you’ll gain a sense of how the book as a whole forms a crucial portrait of Irish identity.

In this first of two lectures about Joyce’s first novel, encounter the ways that Parnell, the Home Rule movement, the Catholic Church, and other themes from the era’s history are key to understanding his Bildungsroman. Review some of the most important scenes in the first half of the book.

A ruthless young working-class Englishman takes a job in a North Country village controlled by a local millionaire. The young man resents the magnate's class consciousness and vows to rise to the top by wooing the millionaire's daughter, while having an affair with a Frenchwoman.. Though he regards his lover as a mere self-gratifying conquest, she takes their romance seriously enough to kill herself when he impregnates the daughter. Only as he leaves...

One of cinema’s first superheroes, the mysterious Judex is torn between an oath of justice against the wealthy banker Favraux, who had earlier wronged his family, and his secret love of Favraux’s daughter, Jacqueline. This framework is the basis of a series of extraordinary and engaging incidents involving Judex’s brother, the evil Diana Monti and her accomplices, the detective Cocantin, and the charming Licorice Kid, all of them regular players...

Revisit Synge and examine his role as a dramatist, which developed quickly after his experiences with the Aran Islands. Through studies of In the Shadow of the Glen and Riders to the Sea, you’ll appreciate the impressive range of this playwright. Find out why his portrayals of Irish country life were not always well received.

Shift your attention back to the political sphere where, after the defeat of Parnell’s Home Rule Bill, rebellious organizers began pushing for reforms of their own. Dig into the events surrounding the Dublin lockout, including the Bloody Sunday massacre, and then consider Ireland’s role in World War I.

This is the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. In a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and large-scale set pieces, FOUR LIONS is a comic tour de force; it shows that - while terrorism is about ideology - it can also be about idiots. . Winner of Outstanding...

Based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier, a young woman discovers her uncle heads a gang of ship-wreckers and murderers under the secret patronage of the local squire. Her efforts to stop their wicked ways leads her down a path filled with murder and betrayal.. JAMAICA INN was the first of Hitchcock's adaptations of Daphne Du Maurier's novels including REBECCA and THE BIRDS. It was also Hitchcock's last film made in the UK before coming to America.....

Take an archaeological tour of Eastern Europe in the wake of the communist collapse. After considering the region’s tattered economy, you’ll look at some of the secrets that emerged with the fall of the USSR and the release of Stasi files. Then consider the shift of identity that took place thanks to redrawn borders and new national entities..

New York grad student and anthropologist Gloria, her brother Rudy, and their friend Pat, travel to a remote part of the Amazon jungle to find and disapprove the local theory of cannibalism among the local tribes when they run into something far worse: a cruel and sadistic, streetwise drug dealer, named Mike Lawson, and his partner, Joe, hiding out in the jungle from murder and drug-dealing charges in back in New York and whom are presently using the...