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Course Info for WMGS - 245 - 01, Spring 2024
Class number: 2198 Title: The Hollywood Musical Department: Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 15 Current enrollment: 6 Available seats: 9
Start date: Monday, January 22, 2024 End date: Friday, May 10, 2024 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: T: 6:30PM-9:10PM, SH - S204 Instructor(s): Corber, Robert
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement
Course Description:
Perhaps more than any other genre, the musical epitomized Hollywood’s “golden age.” This course traces the development of the enormously popular genre from its emergence at the beginning of the Great Depression to its decline amid the social upheavals of the 1960s. It pays particular attention to the genre’s queering of masculinity and femininity, as well as its relationship to camp modes of reception. Readings by Jane Feuer, Rick Altman, Richard Dyer, Janet Staiger, and Steven Cohan.