THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cross-Dressing, Gordon Willis, Commodification
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Primary email: carla melo at mail on avenue to learn. To understand how culture constructs who we are, how we perceive others, how values are formed, thereby empowering ourselves as readers of culture. To empower ourselves as creators of the future. Program examines the complex ways in which theatre and film production engages audiences with cultural and social forces at work in their society. Dramatic storytelling in theatre and cinema is a form of communication uses material objects drawn from everyday lives. Some artists are explicitly aware of this function and the potential it contains for promoting social change while others operate within their society"s dominant ideologies creating work that supports current cultural norms. Works in the course are representative of the creative work studied in theatre and film. Envision productions of play texts recommending specific production choices that will engage students.