8/22

ONLINE: Introduction to class

8/24

ONLINE: “Introduction” (FGR) and Tudor, “Genre” (FGR)—ONLINE IN OAKS

8/29

ONLINE: THE WESTERN Stagecoach (dir. John Ford, 1939); Kitses, “Authorship and Genre” (OAKS) & Schatz, from Hollywood Genres: “The Western,” pp. 45-52 (OAKS)

8/31

ONLINE: Stagecoach cont’d. Pye, “The Western (Genre and Movies)” (FGR)

9/5

ONLINE: The Searchers (dir. John Ford, 1956); Buscombe, “The Idea of Genre in American Cinema” & Altman, “A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre” (FGR)

9/7

ONLINE: The Searchers cont’d. Schatz, from Hollywood Genres: “The Western,” pp. 55-58 (OAKS)

9/12

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (dir. John Ford, 1962); Ray, from A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema: “Real and Disguised Westerns” (OAKS)

9/14

Discussion of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance cont’d. “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (OAKS) & Schatz, from Hollywood Genres: “The Western,” pp. 63-80 (OAKS)

9/19

Bad Day at Black Rock (dir. John Sturges, 1955); Warshow, “Movie Chronicle: The Westerner” (OAKS) & Neale, “Questions of Genre” (FGR)

9/21

Discussion of Bad Day at Black Rock cont’d. Schatz, from Hollywood Genres: “The Western,” 58-63 (OAKS)

9/26

The Wild Bunch (dir. Sam Peckinpah, 1969); Wright, from Sixguns and Society: “The Structure of Myth” (OAKS), Wright, from Sixguns and Society: “Groups and Techniques: the Professional Plot” (OAKS)

9/28

Discussion of The Wild Bunch cont’d. Schatz, “The Structural Influence: New Directions in Film Genre Study” (FGR)

10/3

THE SCREWBALL COMEDY It Happened One Night (dir. Frank Capra, 1934); Schatz, from Hollywood Genres: “The Screwball Comedy,” 150-172 (OAKS)

10/5

Discussion of It Happened One Night cont’d. Midterm exam due (in OAKS), by 11:59pm

10/10

My Man Godfrey (dir. Gregory La Cava, 1936); Beach, “Introduction” and chapter 2 (OAKS)

10/12

Discussion of My Man Godfrey cont’d.

10/17

No class—Fall break

10/19

His Girl Friday (dir. Howard Hawks, 1940); Cavell, “Counterfeiting Happiness” (OAKS)

10/24

Discussion of His Girl Friday cont’d.

10/26

You Can’t Take It with You (dir. Frank Capra, 1938); Schatz, from Hollywood Genres: “The Screwball Comedy,” 173-185 (OAKS); Beach, chapter 3 (OAKS)

10/31

Discussion of You Can’t Take It with You cont’d. Shumway, “Screwball Comedies” (FGR)

11/2

THE MUSICAL 42nd Street (dir. Lloyd Bacon, 1933); Schatz, from Hollywood Genres: “The Musical” (OAKS)

11/7

Discussion of 42nd Street cont’d.

11/9

Top Hat  (dir. Mark Sandrich, 1935); Braudy, “Musicals and the Energy from Within” (OAKS)

11/14

Discussion of Top Hat cont’d.

11/16

Meet Me in St. Louis (dir. Vincente Minnelli, 1944); Elsaesser, “Vincente Minnelli” (OAKS)

11/21

Discussion of Meet Me in St. Louis cont’d.

11/23

Thanksgiving break, no class

11/28

Singin’ in the Rain (dir. Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, 1952); Feuer, “The Self-Reflexive Musical and the Myth of Entertainment” (FGR)

11/30

Singin’ in the Rain, cont’d.