Course Texts
Fiction
- Brooks, Max, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006)
- Butler, Octavia, Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
- James, P. D., The Children of Men (1992)
- McCarthy, Cormac, The Road (2006)
Film (students are responsible for finding and viewing films on their own)
- Cuarón, Alfonso, dir., Children of Men (2006)
- Forster, Marc, dir., World War Z (2013)
- Hillcoat, John, dir., The Road (2009)
- Niccol, Andrew, dir., Gattaca (1997)
Theory
- Parker, Robert Dale, How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies, 3rd edition (Oxford University Press, 2014)
- Sikov, Ed. Film Studies: An Introduction (Columbia University Press, 2009);ISBN: 9780231142939