Film and Media Studies 41 - Genre

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Dartmouth College

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09W, 10S: 10A An examination of the concept and use of genre with focus on a particular genre. How are the genres determined and how useful structurally and historically is genre as a concept of classification What constitutes a genre What is the relationship between periods and genres Between genre and the Hollywood film This course will consider genre as both an aesthetic concept and an economic one, producing stabilization and variation in product. The roles of repetition and variation, stability and change. Genres may include the western, the crime movie, the women's film, the musical, family melodrama, the film noir or other genre-related topics such as film and literature. May be repeated for credit with a different topic. Dist: ART; WCult: Varies. In 09W, Animation History. An overview of animation from its invention to the work of contemporary American and international animators. The class will feature studio history (Disney, Fleischer, Warner Bros., U.P.A.), an examination of animation techniques (cel, drawing, fluid, cut-paper, object, puppet, clay and computer animation), and visits by contemporary auteurs. Particular attention will be paid to politically based animation produced during and after socialism in China and the former Soviet Union. Lawrence. In 10S, Shades of Noir: Film, Fiction, Politics (Identical to Comparative Literature 62). 'Film Noir' evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and 1950s-melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. Noir narratives revolve around questions of racial and national identity; the postwar crisis of masculinity and gender relations; and the experience of alienation and dislocation. The course will also trace the pervasive presence of noir and its continuing appeal for artists and audiences throughout the world. Dist: ART or INT; WCult: W. Gemünde

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3.00

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www.dartmouth.edu

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(603) 646-1110

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Quarter

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