The Musical Syllabus 2014 PDF
The Musical Syllabus 2014 PDF
STUDIES
2013-‐2014
SCHOOL
OF
DRAMA,
FILM
AND
MUSIC
TRINITY
COLLEGE
DUBLIN
FSS022:
The
Musical
Lecturer:
Ciara
Barrett
Email:
barretcm@tcd.ie;
one-‐on-‐one
consultation
by
appointment
Timetable:
Screenings:
Wednesdays
1-‐3pm
Lectures:
Fridays
11am-‐12pm
Seminars:
Fridays
12-‐1pm
Assessment:
This
course
will
be
assessed
by
coursework
and
class
participation.
Course
Outline:
This
course
covers
the
history
of
the
musical
over
a
range
of
national
cinemas
and
filmmaking
traditions
with
a
particular
emphasis
on
the
evolution
of
the
“Hollywood
Musical”
as
the
dominant
paradigm
of
musical
filmmaking
worldwide.
This
module
therefore
aims
to
explore
the
history
and
theory
of
the
musical
from
a
transcultural
perspective,
addressing
issues
of
narrative,
form,
audio-‐visual
integration,
and
representations
of
gender,
race,
and
ethnicity.
The
historical
period
covered
will
span
the
origins
of
the
musical
as
“aggregate
entertainment”
in
the
early
sound
period
through
the
evolution
of
the
integrated
Hollywood
musical
and
beyond,
taking
into
account
iterations
of
the
genre
from
various
national
cinemas
in
the
context
of
globalisation
and
post-‐classical
filmmaking
traditions.
Week
1:
Lecture:
The
Birth
of
the
Film
Musical
Screening:
The
Broadway
Melody
(Harry
Beaumont,
1929)
Reading:
Rick
Altman,
“A
Semantic/Syntactic
Approach
to
Film
Genre”;
Richard
Barrios,
A
Song
in
the
Dark;
Richard
Dyer,
“Entertainment
and
Utopia”
Other
Viewing:
The
Jazz
Singer
(Alan
Crosland,
1927)
Week
2:
Lecture:
The
Backstage
Musical
Screening:
42nd
Street
(Lloyd
Bacon
and
Busby
Berkeley,
1933)
Reading:
Martin
Rubin,
Showstoppers,
pp.
11-‐44;
Mark
Roth,
“Some
Warner
Musicals
and
the
Spirit
of
the
New
Deal”;
Lucy
Fischer,
“The
Image
of
Woman
as
Image”
Other
Viewing:
Once
((John
Carney,
2006)
Week
3:
Lecture:
The
Classical
Hollywood
Musical
Screening:
Swing
Time
(George
Stevens,
1936)
Reading:
Rick
Altman,
“The
American
Film
Musical
as
Dual-‐Focus
Narrative”;
Jane
Feuer,
“The
Self-‐reflexive
Musical
and
the
Myth
of
Integration”;
Babington
and
Evans,
Blue
Skies
and
Silver
Linings,
pp.
1-‐11
and
93-‐111;
Cohan,
“Feminizing
the
Song
and
Dance
Man”
Other
Viewing:
Singin’
in
the
Rain
(Stanley
Donen
and
Gene
Kelly,
1952)
Week
4:
Lecture:
Post-‐Classical
Musicals
and
Beyond
Screening:
The
Umbrellas
of
Cherbourg
(Jacques
Demy,
1964)
Reading:
Sylvie
Lindeperg,
“Time,
History
and
Memory
in
Les
Parapluies
de
Cherbourg”;
Rodney
Hill,
“The
New
Wave
Meets
the
Tradition
of
Quality”;
Ginette
Billard,
“Jacques
Demy
and
His
Other
World”;
Per
Krogh
Hansen,
“Flow-‐Stoppers
and
Frame-‐Breakers”;
Caroline
Bainbridge,
The
Cinema
of
Lars
Von
Trier
Other
Viewing:
Dancer
in
the
Dark
(Lars
Von
Trier,
2000)
Week
5:
Lecture:
Broadway
to
Hollywood,
Stage
to
Screen
Screening:
Cabaret
(Bob
Fosse,
1972)
Reading:
Terri
Gordon,
“Film
in
the
Second
Degree;”
Mitchell
Morris,
“Cabaret;”
Robert
Matthew-‐Walker,
From
Broadway
to
Hollywood;
Albert
Johnson,
“West
Side
Story”
Other
Viewing:
West
Side
Story
(Robert
Wise
and
Jerome
Robbins,
1961)
Week
6:
Lecture:
The
Musical
in
Spain
Screening:
Carmen
(Carlos
Saura,
1983)
Reading:
Marvin
D’Lugo,
The
Films
of
Carlos
Saura;
Rosella
Simonari,
“Bringing
‘Carmen’
Back
to
Spain”;
José
Arroyo,
“Queering
the
Folklore”
Other
Viewing:
El
otro
lado
de
la
cama
(Emilio
Martinez
Lazaro,
2002)
Week
7:
READING
WEEK
Week
8:
Lecture:
Bollywood
Screening:
Ek
Tha
Tiger
(Kabir
Khan,
2012)
Reading:
Sangita
Gopal,
Conjugations,
pp.
23-‐59;
Tejaswini
Ganti,
Bollywood;
Geetanjali
Gangoli,
“Sexuality,
Sensuality
and
Belonging”
Other
Viewing:
Bride
and
Prejudice
(Gurinder
Chadha,
2004)
Week
9:
Lecture:
Ethnic
Others
in
the
Mainstream
Screening:
Showboat
(James
Whale,
1936)
Reading:
Richard
Dyer,
“The
Colour
of
Entertainment”;
Susan
Smith,
The
Musical,
pp.
5-‐53;
Peter
Stanfield,
“From
the
Vulgar
to
the
Refined”;
Steve
Vineberg,
“The
Way
She
Is”;
Michael
Long,
“Yiddishkeit
and
the
Musical
Ethics
of
Cinema”
in
Beautiful
Monsters
Other
Viewing:
Funny
Girl
(William
Wyler,
1968)
Week
10:
Lecture:
Camp
Performance
and
the
“Great
Female
Singer”
Screening:
San
Francisco
(W.
S.
Van
Dyke
and
D.
W.
Griffith,
1936)
Reading:
Susan
Smith,
The
Musical,
pp.
54-‐116;
Jennifer
Fleeger,
“Deanna
Durbin
and
the
Mismatched
Voice”;
Gaylyn
Studlar,
Precocious
Charms
Other
Viewing:
The
Wizard
of
Oz
(Victor
Fleming,
1939)
Week
11:
Lecture:
Animated
Voices
Screening:
Enchanted
(Kevin
Lima,
2007)
Reading:
Paul
Wells,
Animation;
Cary
Elza,
“Alice
in
Cartoonland”;
Chris
Pallant,
“Disney-‐
Formalism”;
Jacqueline
Goss,
“Drawing
Voices”
Other
Viewing:
The
Little
Mermaid
(Ron
Clements
and
John
Musker,
1989)
Week
12:
Lecture:
Musicals
in
the
(Post)Modern
Age
Screening:
Moulin
Rouge
(Baz
Luhrmann,
2001)
Reading:
Robert
Morace,
“Delirious
Postmodernism”;
Anne
Van
der
Merwe,
“Music,
the
Musical,
and
Postmodernism
in
Baz
Luhrmann’s
Moulin
Rouge”
Other
Viewing:
Grease
(Randall
Kleiser,
1978)
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Course
assessment:
This
course
will
be
assessed
by
essay
and
participation.
Essay:
90%
Participation:
10%
Essays
should
be
3500-‐4000
words
in
length.
Part
one
(approx.
1,500
words)
should
be
a
literature
review
of
the
key
texts
exploring
the
period/director
or
film(s)
relevant
to
the
question.
Part
two
should
address
the
main
focus
of
the
question;
e.g.
through
textual
analysis
or
historical
discussion.
Deadline
for
the
submission
of
the
essay
is
5
PM,
Monday
the
12th
of
January,
2015.
Class
participation
will
be
assessed
on
the
basis
of
attendance/punctuality
as
well
as
a
group
presentation/practical,
which
will
take
place
in
Week
12.
Turnitin.com:
You
must
submit
the
essay
electronically
to
www.turnitin.com
by
the
deadline.
Essays
submitted
turnitin.com
after
the
deadline
will
not
be
accepted.
Essay
comments
and
grades
may
be
read
online
two
weeks
after
the
date
of
submission.
Please
note
that
this
essay
is
to
be
submitted
ELECTRONICALLY
ONLY,
i.e.
there
is
no
hard
copy
submission.
Turnitin.com
access:
Class
name:
The
Musical
Enrollment
password:
musicals
Class
ID:
8680943
Essay
titles:
1. Jane
Feuer
(1982)
posits
that
though
“formally
bold,”
musicals
are
the
“most
culturally
conservative
of
genres.”
Critique
this
statement,
using
examples
from
three
or
more
musical
films.
2. Discuss
how
and
why
the
musical
form
has
been
utilized/appropriated
by
certain
European
auteurs
outside
of
Hollywood,
with
reference
to
two
or
more
directors
and/or
national
cinemas.
3. Analyse
gender
performativity
and/or
the
performance
of
“camp”
with
reference
to
one
or
more
of
the
following
musical
stars:
Fred
Astaire,
Judy
Garland,
Liza
Minnelli,
Jeanette
MacDonald,
Gene
Kelly,
John
Travolta.
4. Discuss
the
performance
and
representation
of
race/ethnicity
in
two
or
more
of
the
following
films:
The
Jazz
Singer,
West
Side
Story,
Carmen,
Show
Boat,
Cabaret,
Carmen
Jones,
Funny
Girl.
5. Discuss
the
complexities
of
linear
narrativity
within
the
musical
with
specific
reference
to
at
least
two
films
screened
on
this
course.
6. Critique
Rick
Altman’s
“semantic/syntactic
approach”
to
defining
the
musical
genre,
referencing
at
least
three
films
screened
on
this
course.
7. Explore
the
relationship
between
aural
and
visual
signification
in
a
close
reading
of
at
least
one
musical
film.
Students
are
also
welcome
to
propose
their
own
essay
topic
for
assessment;
this
must
be
done
prior
to
the
Christmas
break.
Group
presentation/practical
prompts:
1. Adapt
a
three
to
ten
minute
sequence
from
a
“non-‐musical”
film
of
your
choosing
(clip
to
be
played
in
class)
into
a
musical
sequence
in
the
style
of
a
Classical
Hollywood
film
musical
or
Bollywood
film,
three
to
ten
minutes
in
length.
This
may
be
performed
live
or
“screened”
using
any
other
audio-‐visual
medium
using
group
members
or
performers
from
outside
class.
2. Adapt
a
three
to
ten
minute
sequence
from
a
backstage
or
Classical
Hollywood
film
musical
(clip
to
be
played
in
class)
into
a
“postmodern”
musical
sequence,
three
to
ten
minutes
in
length.
This
may
be
performed
live
or
“screened”
using
any
other
audio-‐visual
medium
using
group
members
or
performers
from
outside
class.
3. Adapt
a
three
to
ten
minute
musical
sequence
from
any
“Musical”
(clip
to
be
played
in
class)
into
a
“non-‐musical”
dramatic
sequence
using
only
dialogue
and
non-‐
diegetic
music
(or
no
music
at
all).
The
idea
is
to
convey
the
same
“feeling”
and/or
narrative
meaning
expressed
through
or
otherwise
integrated
into
the
original
sequence,
but
through
non-‐“musical”
means.
This
may
be
performed/read-‐through
live
or
“screened”
using
any
other
audio-‐visual
medium
by
group
members
only.
Groups
will
be
assigned
before
Week
8.
Students
are
welcome
to
propose
their
own
idea
for
the
group
presentation;
this
must
be
done
before
the
end
of
Week
10.
Group
1
Caroline
Butin
Aisling
Fulcher
Maxime
Touroute
Sadhbh
Murphy
David
Walsh
Group
2
Emily
Collins
Moritz
Walker
Laura
Walker
Megan
Moriarity
Group
3
Katherine
Finnegan
Niamh
Gaskin
Jette
Mielke
Jack
O’Kennedy
Nicolas
Moreau
Group
4
Marie
Malherbe
Oona
Nadler
Mary
Watson
Adella
Oeleis