551.350 (19W) Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies: American Screwball Comedy

Wintersemester 2019/20

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09.10.2019 16:00 - 19:30 N.0.42 On Campus
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LV-Titel englisch Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies: American Screwball Comedy
LV-Art Seminar (prüfungsimmanente LV )
Semesterstunde/n 2.0
ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 8.0
Anmeldungen 11 (20 max.)
Organisationseinheit
Unterrichtssprache Englisch
LV-Beginn 09.10.2019
eLearning zum Moodle-Kurs
Anmerkungen

This is a block seminar.

The first double-session on October 9, 2019 is mandatory.

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Intendierte Lernergebnisse

Students will deepen their understanding and usage of critical concepts in film studies and acquire a solid knowledge of the defining features and history of the American screwball comedy. They will develop a critical understanding of the ways in which the genre has both challenged and reaffirmed traditional gender roles. They will learn to establish connections between the cultural, political, and social forces that produced and shaped this genre during the 1930s and 40s and gain a better understanding of how later filmmakers made use of its defining features. 

Lehrmethodik inkl. Einsatz von eLearning-Tools

Short lecture inputs; detailed analysis and in-class discussion of assigned films and texts. 

Inhalt/e

Flourishing in the 1930s and early 40s, the American screwball comedy is a quick-talking, romantic farce in which strong women challenge feeble men to a hilarious battle of the sexes, usually throwing them into chaos in the process. Firmly circumscribed by Hollywood’s self-regulated morality rulebook, the Hays Code, a breakneck repartee and ever-escalating plot lines became the defining features of what Andrew Sarris has called a “sex comedy without the sex.” Paying particular attention to the genre’s reversals of traditional gender roles and cloaking of sexual tension, we will begin by studying classics such as Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night (1934), Howard Hawks’ Bringing up Baby (1938) and George Cukor’s The Philadelphia Story (1940), before moving on to more recent incarnations of the screwball comedy such as Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959), Peter Bogdanovich’s What’s Up, Doc? (1972), and the Cohen brother’s Intolerable Cruelty (2003). We will discuss the defining features of the genre, the historical conditions that produced it, and how it has changed and adapted over time.

Literatur

All materials will be provided on Moodle by the instructor. 

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Position im Curriculum

  • Masterstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik (SKZ: 812, Version: 18W.1)
    • Fach: Literature and Culture Studies (Wahlfach)
      • 3.2 Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture Studies: Focus Gender ( 0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
        • 551.350 Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies: American Screwball Comedy (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 1. Semester empfohlen
  • Masterstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik (SKZ: 812, Version: 11W.1)
    • Fach: Film, Literature and Culture Studies (Wahlfach)
      • Advanced Topics in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” ( 0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
        • 551.350 Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies: American Screwball Comedy (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
  • Masterstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik (SKZ: 812, Version: 11W.1)
    • Fach: Film, Literature and Culture Studies (Wahlfach)
      • Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies ( 0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
        • 551.350 Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies: American Screwball Comedy (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)

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