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- Arrival: From a Short Story to a Film – In-Person
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Item Number: W25ARTS323A
Dates: 1/9/2025 - 1/23/2025
Times: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 3
Maximum Enrollment: 32
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room D
Instructor: Lorraine Vail
Short stories are especially well-suited to movie adaptations — they’re inventive, contained, and depend more on the characters than a plot. This discussion course will explore two different narratives: the award-winning film “Arrival” (2016) and Ted Chiang’s short story “Story of Your Life” (1998), initially considered to be unfilmable upon publication. We will explore how the foundation of this short story was extrapolated into a more complex, nonlinear sci-fi narrative centering on the life and work of linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams). Our discussion will include how the alien language in the film plays a pivotal role in exploring the themes of language and identity. Students are expected to have read the short story and viewed the film before the course begins.
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- Danger and Deception: The Best of Alfred Hitchcock – Online
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Item Number: W25ARTS328
Dates: 2/4/2025 - 2/25/2025
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 4
Maximum Enrollment: 299
Building: Online
Room: (Zoom)
Instructor: Jay Sherwin
In his legendary career as a director, Alfred Hitchcock created dense, suspenseful films filled with flawed heroes, charming villains, and moral ambiguity. In this four-week online course, we’ll consider some of Hitchcock’s very best films, focusing on two films each week that share a common theme. Students should watch the films on their own; in class, we’ll look at brief film clips and discuss key elements. Whether you’ve enjoyed Hitchcock films for many years or you’re just discovering them, this is a chance to go deeper into the mind of a brilliant, complicated man and the surprising, confounding, and entertaining world he created on film.
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- Determining Your Acting Type – In-Person
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Item Number: W25ARTS322A-1
Dates: 1/9/2025 - 1/16/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 2
Maximum Enrollment: 15
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room C
Instructor: Andrew Reilly
Learn how to work smarter rather than harder in furthering your acting career. Actors must concentrate their marketing efforts on roles for which they are best suited. The terms “leading man, leading lady, ingenue” are almost never mentioned in casting notices; however, gender, age, ethnicity, and occupation are nearly always specified. People’s jobs determine much of their lifestyle, wardrobe choices, and often their friends. In the first session, students will learn how to conduct a market survey to assess how others see them in order to determine their acting type, as well as to concentrate on auditioning for the roles for which they are best suited. In the second class, they will share the results of their market surveys with other class members, which will also serve as a networking event with other actors. In addition, students will learn where to get headshots taken and where to have them reproduced for marketing purposes.
NOTE: There are two in-person sections of this course offered, both on Thursdays. The first starts the first week of the term; the second starts the first week of February.
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- Determining Your Acting Type – In-Person
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Item Number: W25ARTS322A-2
Dates: 2/6/2025 - 2/13/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 2
Maximum Enrollment: 15
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room C
Instructor: Andrew Reilly
Learn how to work smarter rather than harder in furthering your acting career. Actors must concentrate their marketing efforts on roles for which they are best suited. The terms “leading man, leading lady, ingenue” are almost never mentioned in casting notices; however, gender, age, ethnicity, and occupation are nearly always specified. People’s jobs determine much of their lifestyle, wardrobe choices, and often their friends. In the first session, students will learn how to conduct a market survey to assess how others see them in order to determine their acting type, as well as to concentrate on auditioning for the roles for which they are best suited. In the second class, they will share the results of their market surveys with other class members, which will also serve as a networking event with other actors. In addition, students will learn where to get headshots taken and where to have them reproduced for marketing purposes.
NOTE: There are two in-person sections of this course offered, both on Thursdays. The first starts the first week of the term; the second starts the first week of February.
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- Hollywood Movies and Behind-the-Scenes Hijinks – In-Person
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Get ready to sneak onto the set of several recent movie hits such as “The Help,” “Barbie,” and the much lauded “La La Land” and see what really goes on during the making of a film. The course offers an overview of the movie-making machinery and its many facets from someone who has spent decades as a still photographer in the film industry. Still images taken by the instructor will be shown and discussed, with some references to the books from which the films were derived. These presentations are designed to be educational, enriching, and most of all, entertaining. Be sure to bring along your sense of humor!
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- Old Time Radio – In-Person
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Old Time Radio will sample some of the greatest radio shows from the Golden Age of Radio, including “The Lone Ranger,” “The Six Shooter,” “Fibber McGee and Molly,” “Jack Benny,” “Our Miss Brooks,” “Dragnet,” “Philip Marlowe,” “Richard Diamond,” “Sam Spade,” and the suspenseful “The Hitchhiker” and “Sorry, Wrong Number.” Genres include detective, adventure, comedy, horror and westerns. Before each show the instructor will give a brief summary of the history of the show and its writers and actors. After listening to each episode, there will be some time for students to offer their opinions.
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- Ten Classic Comedy Films, Part 4 – In-Person
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Item Number: W25ARTS218A
Dates: 1/8/2025 - 3/12/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 10
Maximum Enrollment: 53
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room D
Instructor: Roy Sutton
This course will show 10 classic comedy films, starting with a silent film, “The Gold Rush,” with Charlie Chaplin (1925), and concluding with “A Fish Called Wanda,” with John Cleese and Jamie Lee Curtis (1988). The other eight are “Dinner at Eight,” “The Awful Truth,” “Buck Privates,” “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” “No Time for Sergeants,” “The Graduate,” “Blazing Saddles,” and “Breaking Away.” A handout for each film will be made available the week before the showing of the film, except for the first film, for which the handout will be made available on the first day. The instructor will mention anything special to be noticed about each film just before it is shown, and students may offer comments or questions at that time. A guided discussion will follow after the end of the film. Students need bring nothing more than a desire to see these special comedy films that are true classics and still enjoyable no matter how many times one views them.
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- Ten Classic Musical Films, Part 4 – In-Person
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Item Number: W25ARTS202A
Dates: 1/6/2025 - 3/10/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 9
Maximum Enrollment: 53
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room D
Instructor: Roy Sutton
This course will show 10 classic musical films, starting with “The Blue Angel,” with Marlene Dietrich (1930) and concluding with “The King and I,” with Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner (1956). The other eight are “Love Me Tonight,” “Gold Diggers of 1933,” “A Night at the Opera,” “Show Boat,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Meet Me in St. Louis,” “A Star Is Born,” and “Guys and Dolls.” A handout for each film will be made available the week before the showing of the film, except for the first film, for which the handout will be made available on the first day. The instructor will mention anything special to be noticed about each film just before it is shown, and students may offer comments or questions at that time. A guided discussion will follow the end of the film. Students need bring nothing more than a desire to see these special musical films that are true classics and still enjoyable no matter how many times one views them.
NOTE: There is no class on Monday, January 20, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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