Classic screwball comedies were produced in a 10-year period from Capra’s It Happened One Night (1934) to Sturges’ Miracle at Morgan’s Creek (1944). The class will screen 20 films from these years, although it will include a few later films. Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959), Mann’s Lover Come Back (1961) and the Coen Brothers’ Intolerable Cruelty (2003). We will examine the genre in its historical context and examine elements of the system studios, writers, producers, clothes and set designers, actors that produced this astonishingly witty and short-lived film genre.

This course explores a specific idea, concept, period, person or event important in the history and/or aesthetics of dance. Topics vary depending on the instructor’s research and expertise.