Lit On Film ENG 199 D1: To Kill a Mockingbird Symbolism & Film Techniques
1. Lit On Film (ENG 199 D1)
For next time 3/29:
View: Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Also
Read Ch. 3 in text Fictional And Dramatic
Elements p. 40( particularly note section on
symbolism p.71-80)
Take CD Quiz or
answer question #1 On Symbolism p. 86 as it
applies to To Kill A Mockingbird
2. To Kill A Mockingbird 1962
-based on the 1960 Pulitzer Prize
winning novel by Harper Lee
-----a classic of modern American fiction.
The novel is loosely based on the author's
observations of her family and neighbors,
as well as an event that occurred near her
hometown in 1936, when she was
10 years old.
3. To Kill A Mockingbird 1962
-by Harper Lee
..........probably the most widely read
book dealing with race in America, and
its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the most
enduring fictional image of racial
heroism
4. To Kill A Mockingbird 1962
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Screenplay by Horton Foote
Music By Elmer Bernstein
Cinematography By Russell Harlan
5. To Kill A Mockingbird 1962
Principal Cast
!▪!Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch
!▪!Mary Badham as Jean Louise "Scout" Finch
!▪!Phillip Alford as Jeremy Atticus "Jem" Finch
!▪!John Megna as Dill Harris
!▪!Brock Peters as Tom Robinson
!▪!James Anderson as Bob Ewell
!▪!Collin Wilcox as Mayella Violet Ewell
!▪!Robert Duvall as Arthur "Boo" Radley
6. To Kill A Mockingbird 1962
The American Film Institute named Atticus
Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th
century. Additionally, the AFI ranked the
movie second on their 100 Cheers list,
behind It's a Wonderful Life, and twenty-fifth
on the list of greatest American films of all
time
7. Co-existence of good and evil
Childhood innocence evolving to a more
adult perspective.
