BA123 American Film Classics

  • 26 Apr 2024
  • 28 Jun 2024
  • 3 sessions
  • 26 Apr 2024, 2:00 PM 3:30 PM (CEST)
  • 24 May 2024, 2:00 PM 3:30 PM (CEST)
  • 28 Jun 2024, 2:00 PM 3:30 PM (CEST)
  • Remote on Zoom
  • 3

Registration

  • Course attendee, WICE member
  • Ellen Feldman
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Course Description

Discover and discuss masterpieces of American and British cinema in this class for intermediate and advanced English speakers. You’ll watch a film at home on streaming, or borrow the DVD from your local library, before a lively and engaging discussion in class. You’ll be assigned one scene to watch at least three times! Every month you’ll view a film from an influential director so you’ll come to know the stylistic hallmarks of favorite genres and filmmakers.

If you love the movies, this course is an enjoyable way to increase vocabulary, get comfortable with idiomatic expressions, improve your conversational skills, and deepen your understanding of American culture and cinema.

The spring we’ll discuss three films that are all premiere examples of 1930s (or early 1940s) Hollywood genre films:

Screwball comedy: My Man Godfrey (1936), directed by Gregory La Cava, with William Powell and Carole Lombard

Musical:  Swing Time (1936), directed by George Stevens, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

Detective film: Maltese Falcon (1941) directed by John Huston, with Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Peter Lorre

About the instructor
Ellen Feldman grew up in Philadelphia and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She holds a Ph.D. in cinema studies from New York University and has taught film studies at the State University of New York, Geneseo campus, and Brooklyn College.

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