Drawing on Thomas Schatz’s Hollywood Genres and Tina Olsin Lent’s “Romantic Love and Friendship,” discuss where each film fits along Schatz’s “four stages of generic evolution,” and how each film addresses the themes of its genre.
Description Part 1 (2 pages) (Assigned films: Gone With the Wind; Casablanca 1942; ) Pick one film screened for class and any second film in the same genre. Drawing on Thomas Schatz’s Hollywood Genres and Tina Olsin Lent’s “Romantic Love and Friendship,” discuss where each film fits along Schatz’s “four stages of generic evolution,” and […]