Topics vary per semester. FT554 can fulfill the Undergraduate Additional Studies requirement. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Digital/Multimedia Expression. Effective Summer 2025, this course carry's no Hub requirements.
FALL 2025 Schedule
| Section |
Instructor |
Location |
Schedule |
Notes |
| A1 |
Vanaria |
COM B05 |
R 11:30 am-3:15 pm |
Topic: International Vampire Cinema
The prerequisite for COMFT 554 is COMFT 250. |
FALL 2025 Schedule
| Section |
Instructor |
Location |
Schedule |
Notes |
| B1 |
Vanaria |
COM B05 |
MW 10:10 am-11:55 am |
Topic: Mexican Cinema
The undergraduate prerequisite for COMFT 554 is COMFT 250. |
SPRG 2026 Schedule
| Section |
Instructor |
Location |
Schedule |
Notes |
| A1 |
Guarana |
COM B05 |
MW 10:10 am-11:55 am |
Topic: Latin America Melodrama
The prerequisite for COMFT 554 A1 is COMFT 250. This class meets the international cinema requirement.
Description: In the introduction to her seminal book, Home Is Where the Heart Is, Christine Gledhill states that “from the turn of the [twentieth] century through the 60s melodrama had been conceived in predominantly pejorative terms.” Despite its immense popularity during the so-called Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, melodrama in Latin America has likewise been relegated to the corners of “unserious” cinema, often criticized for mimicking the lowbrow telenovela format so popular across the region. In this course, we will investigate key aspects of melodrama as a mode and as genre following debates in film studies and applying this genre theory to Latin American cinema. Our goals will be to trace melodramatic traditions, innovations, and deviations in Latin American cinema as well as to find melodrama in film texts labeled otherwise. |
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