THEATER, DANCE AND FILM 340 - Comedy as Social Critique. Fall 2010

Institution:

Franklin and Marshall College

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Explores varieties of comic experience in theater, film, and TV, from Aristophanes to Ayckbourn, by way of kyogen, commedia, Congreve, and Cosby; examines that experience as a reflection of its cultural context; and applies the theory of Bergson, Freud, Meredith, Frye, and Langer to both experience and context. Silberman

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.FANDM.EDU

Phone Number:

(717) 291-3911

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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