Summer Film School is a great way to learn how to recognize and analyze the unique conventions movies use to have flat, giant images on a wall make us laugh, weep, cringe, and cheer. Broken into four classes, Summer Film School this year will focus on genres, which are the stylistic categories we use to define films based on their settings, tone, dialogue, plots, and themes. Specifically, we’re going to look at what happens when genres collide. To unpack that way of packaging films, the course will survey (1) Animation/Film Noir (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?), (2) Horror/Comedy (The Blackening), (3) Sci-Fiction/Westerns (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome), and (4) literally Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Lectures will run about 30 minutes on each subject before the film screening. After the film, there will be a discussion of how it situates itself within the genres discussed in the lecture, and we welcome all spirited ideas about what we just watched together.
Packages are no longer on sale for this series. Tickets for individual screenings may still be purchased.
