Hypertext: Reading and Writing Online

Readings

Spring, 2003
Vanderbilt University

 
 

 


Much of the reading for this course will be online.  Students will need to order three books from Amazon.Com or another online bookseller and one CD-rom disk from Eastgate Systems.  Please click on the links below to order these two texts.

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818).

Walter Mosley, Futureland (2002)

Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2
 

Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl (Eastgate Systems) - Order online.

Films

Students should watch the following films, which will be discussed during the course of the semester.

Steven Spielberg, (dir.), Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)

Ridley Scott (dir.), Blade Runner (1982; Director's Cut, 1992) 

Barry Levinson (dir.), Disclosure (1994)

The Matrix, (1999) Directed by Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski

Memento (2000), directed by Christopher Nolan.

Irwin Winkler (dir.), The Net (1995)

View Suture (1993), directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel.

 

Films about the Net, Cyborgs, and Virtual Reality:

 
 
 
Jay Clayton
Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt English