FLME 4330 – Film Genres I – Musicals
Email: michaelbass@clayton.edu
Office: Arts & Sciences – G121 Part Time Office
Visitation Hours: TR 2:30-4:30 or by appointment

Spring 2022 Full Course Syllabus

Course Readings (Password Protected)

Resources
Clayton State Academic Calendars
Clayton State Film, Communication, and Performing Arts Department
Clayton State Communications and Media Studies Department
Clayton State Film Production Department
(Some) Georgia Film Festivals!
SWANK – GSU Library’s Streaming Service!
Kanopy – GSU Library’s Other Streaming Service!
Hoopla – Atlanta-Fulton Public Library’s Streaming Service!
Atlanta Fulton County Public Library!
Criterion Channel
Shudder
Adblock Plus
Videodrome Atlanta
Midtown Art Cinema Atlanta
Plaza Theatre Atlanta
Film Terms Glossary
Box Office Mojo
Film-Related Podcasts
How to Email a Professor
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Gauntlett, “Essay-Writing: The Essential Guide”
More Paper Tips
What is a Scholarly Article?
How to Read Scholarly Articles
How to Find Scholarly Articles
Citation Styles Help

Lecture Notes
Academic Writing
Altman – The American Film Musical as Dual-Focus Narrative
Arbuthnot & Seneca – Pre-Text and Text in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Audissino – Music as the Connective Tissue of Emotions: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Bordwell, Thompson, & Smith – Film Genres
Cohan – Introduction: Musicals of the Studio Era
Doughty & Etherington-Wright – Genre Theory
Doughty & Etherington-Wright – Queer Theory
Dyer – Entertainment and Utopia
Everett – 1961: Movie and Civil Rights
Jenkins – New Bourgeoisie, Old Bodies: Performing Post-Civil Rights Black Privilege in Tar Baby and School Daze
Knapp – The Movie Musical: Stormy Weather and Bamboozled
Lindeperg & Marshall – Time, History, and Memory in Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
McDonnell – Genre Theory and the Film Musical
Midterm Review
Penner – Rethinking the Diegetic/Nondiegetic Distinction in the Film Musical
Rubin – Roots: From Barnum to Ziegfeld & The Backstage Format
Sandoval-Sanchez – A Puerto Rican Reading of the America of West Side Story
Smith – ‘It’s Just a Movie’: A Teaching Essay for Introductory Media Classes
Todorov – Definition of the Fantastic

The Bass Clan!