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Genre/Period: Screen Comedy
| Genre/Period: Screen Comedy | | Course Number | FLS 241-02-LEC | | Course Title | Genre/Period: Screen Comedy | | Department | Film Studies | | Campus | Smith College | | Course Description | Topics course. Lectures, with occasional discussion, on film comedies from a variety of places and times: American screwball comedies and British Ealing comedies; battles of the sexes; the silent or non-verbal comedy of Chaplin, Keaton, and Jacques Tati; parodies of other film genres; political satire; musical comedy; adaptations of comic novels; fast-talking comedy by the Marx Brothers, Monty Python, Woody Allen, and Howard Hawks; and to sum things up, Ingmar Bergman?s Smiles of a Summer Night. Some attention to animated cartoons; occasional readings in film criticism, film history, and the theory of comedy. Prerequisite: a college course in film or literature, or permission of the instructor. | | Course Notes | Topic: Screen Comedy |
| Reg # | Section | Credits | Instructors | Meeting Times | Location | Notes |
| 37984-S10 |
02 |
4 |
Jefferson Hunter |
WF 11:00-12:10; T 07:00-09:00 |
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