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ARTT-235 Seminar: Comedy
Spring only
This intermediate course offers wide-ranging critical exploration of practices, examples and theories of comedy across a diversity of forms and genres, including plays, stand-up, sketch comedy, and varied cinema from silent films to slapstick to satire. The course will feature weekly screenings, scholarly research, and disciplined theoretical discussions about various forms of comedy through history, sources of laughter, and parody. Among the artists whose work we are likely to engage with are Woody Allen, Aristophanes, Samuel Beckett, Charlie Chaplin, Margaret Cho, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Marx Brothers, Moliere, Richard Pryor, Gilda Radner, Chris Rock, William Shakespeare, Sarah Silverman, Voltaire, and Oscar Wilde.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: 1 introductory ARTT course or a Literature Course or Permission from the Instructor
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