Film Comedy

6 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) This course looks at film comedy from the earliest silent film comedies of Edison and Méliès to the contemporary comedies of Kevin Smith and Woody Allen. It focuses on cinematic techniques used to achieve a comic action or comic perspective. Students explore the cinematic tools of comedy filmmakers in historical perspective. They also do some practical filmmaking work. Requisite Courses: THFM-1010 [prerequisite(s)].