teaching with "Rashomon"

[lcoqc at qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu]

  Please forgive me if portions of this request are 
stultifying: I don't have access to the web or to my 
university library for some days and am trying to draft 
a course description which would use the film and 
the (translated) script of "Rashomon" and its 
literary sources for a sort of mid-level comparative 
lit. course on hermeneutics, theory, etc. I imagine 
that this has been done often. What I wonder is whether 
any list members would be kind enough to share 
their experiences (or syllabi, for that matter) using 
Rashomon as a teaching text, and (this is the 
embarrassing part) might clue me in on the sources 
(I'd assumed the film was based on Akutagawa's story 
of the same title and this is obviously not so). 

  thanks for any help 

Lewis Cook 
Queens College CUNY 
Lewis_Cook at qc.edu