文艺范儿十足“婚姻与电影：历史变迁”即将开课

爱电影的慕课达人们有福了，由卫斯连大学在coursera平台推出的慕课“婚姻与电影：历史变迁”4月21日就要开课了。

婚姻一直是电影里引人入胜的话题，它通常反映了这个社会的世俗变迁、道德和性别角色的演变。这门课探讨了从无声电影到有声电影近一百年时间中，电影是如何定义婚姻的，以及相关的7个核心问题，文艺范儿十足，感兴趣的小伙伴们不要错过哦，

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课程概述

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.

授课大纲

5 weeks, 10 films, 22 lectures
WEEK I
Introduction
Lecture 1: An Overview on Marriage and the Movies
Lecture 2: Hollywood and Marriage
Lecture 3: The Silent Era
Lecture 4: The Silent Era part II
Film 1: WILD ORCHIDS (Franklin, 1929) (Warner Archive / Amazon)
Lecture 5: Defining the Marriage Movie
Film 2: MADE FOR EACH OTHER (Cromwell, 1939) (Amazon)

WEEK 2
Lecture 6: The “I Do” and “I Don’t” versions
Film 3: THE MARRYING KIND (Cukor, 1952) (Amazon)
Lecture 7: Variations and Vignettes
Lecture 8: The Couple
Lecture 9: The Couple part II
Film 4: ADAM’S RIB (Cukor, 1949) (Amazon)

WEEK 3
Lecture 10: The Seven Recurring Problems
Lecture 11: Money and Infidelity
Film 5: BRIEF ENCOUNTER (Lean, 1945) (Amazon)
Lecture 12: The Infidelity Story Over Time
Lecture 13: In-laws/Kids and Class/Incompatibility
Lecture 14: Incompatibility continued
Film 6: VIVACIOUS LADY (Stevens, 1938) (Warner Archive / Amazon)

WEEK 4
Lecture 15: Addiction/Murder
Film 7: SUSPICION (Hitchcock, 1941) (Amazon)
Lecture 16: The Situation
Lecture 17: WWII Marriage Movies
Film 8: SINCE YOU WENT AWAY (Cromwell, 1944) (Amazon)

WEEK 5
Lecture 18: Post-WWII, TV
Lecture 19: Post-war continued
Lecture 20: “The Modern Era”
Film 9: HEARTBURN (Nichols, 1986) (Amazon)
Lecture 21: State of the Marriage Movie – “Nuclear” Marriages, Social Change
Film 10: THE WAR OF THE ROSES (DeVito, 1989) (Amazon)
Lecture 22: Conclusions

Assignments:
Multiple-choice quizzes during/after each lecture (ungraded)
Longer cumulative multiple-choice quiz at the end (graded)
Online discussion opportunities