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FVM 188
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Title: | The Comedy Film |
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Long Title: | The Comedy Film |
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Course Description: | Provides an overview, history, and examination of the film comedy genre. Students will analyze films from a variety of perspectives; drama,
history, culture and film aesthetics and techniques. Examines both
style (Farce, Social Satire, Parody, etc.), and performers (Chaplin,
Keaton, Fields, Marx Brothers, etc.), moving chronologically. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Course Notes: | Previously FVT 188 |
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Origin Notes: | CCA |
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Status Notes: | Revisions made 10/23/09 s@ |
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¿ Write about the screened films and practice critical impressions and opinions both orally and written.
¿ Participate in a combination of activities such as group projects, quizzes, handouts, papers, attendance, tests, and participation.
¿ Learn about basic historical context that the films were produced in.
1. Introduction to film: Including introduction to classic concepts of comedy in drama and literature; birth and evolution of silent-era slapstick; the rise of 1930s verbal comedy; differences between ¿low¿ and ¿high¿ comedy; sub-genres of Hollywood comedy, such as screwball and romantic comedy; the rise of R-rated comedy in modern Hollywood.
2. Selection of films, including Chaplin shorts and features; Buster Keaton; the Marx Brothers; Mae West; the 1940s films of Preston Sturges, screwball classics, such as Bringing Up Baby; Warner Bros. cartoons; the postwar era from Bob Hope to Jerry Lewis; and evolution of comedy to such adult-minded contemporary classics as Tootsie, Airplane, and Animal House.
3. Film reviews, revolving around question of What is Funny?
4. Viewing journal and examinations, drawing on lectures and discussions.
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