New York Stories on Screen

Taxi Driver, All About Eve, Do the Right Thing, Sex and the City ¿ the list goes on and on. From the beginning of film New York has starred as a complex, shifting arena for iconic and personal stories. This course will investigate feature films and television episodes filmed in and around New York to examine the structure and mechanisms of narrative on the screen, the ¿engineering¿ of filmic story. Each week features one assigned film or episode followed by lecture and discussion revealing the hidden mechanisms at work. We begin with the ¿standard model¿ of three-act structure and progress to more dynamic variations in storytelling.