Film Studies 244 - GLOBAL MEDIA: THE MUSICAL!
Spring
2017
01
4.00
Andrew Ritchey
MW 01:10-02:30
Smith College
42129-S17
SEELYE 302
aritchey@smith.edu
This course examines the film musical as a global genre traversing a range of media, not only including film but also theater, television, social media and recorded music. Since the advent of synchronous sound film, the musical has become one of the global film industry’s most enduring and profitable genres. What has made the musical so successful the world over? Though much critical and scholarly attention has been paid to the Hollywood studio-era musicals of the 1930s–’50s, the scope of our investigation is global and our focus is on more recent iterations of the genre.
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.
You must also register for a Lab section.