55-5406 CRW: American Stage to Screen

Students will read modern American plays of playwrights such as David Mamet, Tony Kushner, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman, Anna Deavere Smith, Arthur Miller, Milcha Sanchez Scott, Jose Rivera, and see corresponding film adaptations. Students will analyze and evaluate play texts with attention to characterization, story, plot, narrative movement, and structure that make them viable for the screen. Students will respond to texts and films through journal entries, an oral report, and a final creative nonfiction essay.

3 Credits
Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I and 55-5323 Playwriting I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I and 55-5323 Playwriting I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II and 55-5323 Playwriting I or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II and 55-5323 Playwriting I or 55-5104 Prose Forms and 55-5323 Playwriting I or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms