| Title: | Shakespeare |
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| Course Section Number: | FRT-101-15 |
| Department: | Freshman Tutorial |
| Description: | FACE TO FACE COURSE FRT-101-15: Shakespeare: The Motion Picture! Jim is an Associate Professor and Chair of Theater at the College, as well as the Coordinator of the Film and Digital Media Minor. He teaches a variety of courses, with topics ranging from Ancient Greek performance to the contemporary New York theater scene. He also directs students in theater productions at the College. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking with his wife (Prof. Crystal Benedicks of the English Department), roughhousing with their kids (Georgie, Becky, and Kate), reading good novels, seeing good theater, and watching the Red Sox beat the Yankees. In 1899, a friend of Thomas Edison's filmed scenes from a London production of King John and produced the first cinematic treatment of a Shakespeare play. In the decades thereafter, film directors would attempt to capture Shakespeare on celluloid thousands of times; there were more than 400 Shakespeare films made in the silent era alone. In doing so, film directors, actors, producers, studio heads, designers, and audiences shaped the way we view the author many consider among the most important of all time. Bringing Shakespeare to the screen has delivered his work to a wider audience, and allowed for sometimes-radical reinterpretations of the Bard's work. In this course we will address some of the following questions: How do you adapt a play into a film? Why does Shakespeare continue to be a box office draw nearly four centuries after his death? At what point does a work stop being Shakespeare's, and start being someone else's? And finally, what does Shakespeare "mean" in our own time? Over the course of the semester, we will screen various film versions of Shakespeare's plays including Richard III, Macbeth, Henry V, and Much Ado about Nothing. We will discuss concepts like the nature of adaptation and parody, the politics of popular culture and gender. And at the end of the course, working alongside your peers, you will roll up your sleeves and make your own Shakespeare film. All along, we'll work to improve your writing and research skills, and to help you adjust to the academic and social life of the College. This is a course designed for the freshman interested in Shakespeare, film, and/or theater. No experience necessary! |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 12, 2020 |
| End Date: | November 24, 2020 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/13/2020-11/24/2020 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Lilly Library, Room GOODRICH
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| Faculty: | Cherry, Jim |
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