LHUM 321 - Modern Drama and Film

Institution:

Berklee College of Music

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Description:

Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LCOR-112 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Spring Description Students will explore the creative forces that go into making films and film adaptations of plays. Movies by directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Orson Welles, Ang Lee, Steven Soderbergh, David Lynch, Neil Jordan, and Sam Mendes will be explored. Film adaptations of plays by such dramatists as Anton Chekov, Sam Shepard, Harold Pinter, Beth Henley, and David Mamet will also be investigated. Discussions of the elements of drama and film will focus on topics such as dramatic structure, film scoring, screenwriting, directing, acting, and the use of myth and archetype in contemporary films. As a way of understanding the dramatic techniques and approaches used by playwrights and screenwriters, students will have the opportunity to write original dramatic scenes. Scenes by writers such as Shakespeare, Pinter, and Stoppard will be read aloud in order to hear a drama's phrasing, cadences, and architecture. This is a writing-intensive course.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

09/01/2007 - 09/01/2007 

Institution Website:

www.berklee.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 747-2222

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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