开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 5 weeks
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所在平台: CourseraArchive 课程类别: 人文 大学或机构: Wesleyan University（卫斯理大学） 授课老师： Jeanine Basinger |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/marriageandmovies
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From the beginning of motion picture history, marriage has been a topic for popular story-telling, but Hollywood struggled with a subject that presented problems an audience already knew and perhaps did not want to see as entertainment.
How the film-making business crafted tales that were simultaneously an "I do!" of happiness and an "I don't!" of disappointment is a fascinating reflection of America's history, changing social attitudes, shifting morals and gender roles. Hollywood found
ways both to reflect reality and deflect misery as decade after decade, movies adjusted a basic formula to audience needs.
Film clips and still photographs will illustrate how films defined marriage in the movies, identified a core seven problems, and varied its three narrative components -- a couple, their problems, their situation -- from decade to decade from the silent
to the modern era.
5 weeks, 10 films, 22 lectures
WEEK I
Lecture 1: Opening lecture
Lecture 2: Overview of marriage movie in Silent Era
Film 1: WILD ORCHIDS (Franklin, 1929) (Warner Archive / Amazon)
Lecture 3: Wrapup of Silent Era
Lecture 4: What is/isn't a Marriage Movie
Film 2: MADE FOR EACH OTHER (Cromwell, 1939) (Amazon)
Lecture 5: The "I Do" version
WEEK 2
Lecture 6: The "I Don't" version
Film 3: THE MARRYING KIND (Cukor, 1952) (Amazon)
Lecture 7: Marriage "vignettes"
Lecture 8: How the couple is defined
Film 4: ADAM'S RIB (Cukor, 1949) (Amazon)
Lecture 9: What women/men want; comparison and subtext
WEEK 3
Lecture 10: The seven recurring problems
Film 5: BRIEF ENCOUNTER (Lean, 1945) (Amazon)
Lecture 11: Infidelity
Lecture 12: In-laws/kids
Film 6: VIVACIOUS LADY (Stevens, 1938) (Warner Archive / Amazon)
Lecture 13: Class/Incompatibility
WEEK 4
Lecture 14: Addiction/Murder
Film 7: SUSPICION (Hitchcock, 1941) (Amazon)
Lecture 15: Concluding "Their Problems"
Lecture 16: Context of WWII, how marriage movie affected
Film 8: SINCE YOU WENT AWAY (Cromwell, 1944) (Amazon)
Lecture 17: Segue to post-WWII
WEEK 5
Lecture 18: Post-WWII, TV, modern films
Film 9: HEARTBURN (Nichols, 1986) (Amazon)
Lecture 19: "The Modern Era"
Lecture 20: Marriage on TV
Film 10: THE WAR OF THE ROSES (DeVito, 1989) (Amazon)
Lecture 21: State of the Marriage Movie
Lecture 22: Conclusions
Assignments:
3-question multiple-choice quizzes during/after each lecture (ungraded)
Longer cumulative multiple-choice quiz at the end
(graded)
Online discussion opportunities
The topic of marriage in the movies has always provided a fascinating reflection of changing social attitudes, shifting morals and gender roles. We will explore how films have defined marriage, identified seven core problems, and varied its three narrative components -- a couple, their problems, their situation -- from decade to decade from the silent to the modern era.
