Modern Drama and Film

Department - LART
Offered - Spring
Course number - LENG-321

Students will explore the creative forces that go into making films and film adaptations of plays. Works by directors such as Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Martin Scorsese, the Coen brothers, Hitchcock, Ang Lee, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Federico Fellini, 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. This is a writing-intensive course.

Credits: 3
Course Chair: Darla Hanley
Prerequisites: LENG-201
Required of: None
Electable by: All