University degrees: Summer University
Course length: 1 month
Course city: Los Angeles
Counts toward Theater minor
Examines challenges confronted by actors in 10 film genres from the 1930s to the present. Streaming lectures and film clips illustrate skills required of performers in epic films, science fiction, musicals, comedies, action/adventure, Westerns, crime and gangster films, horror and suspense, war and anti-war films and dramas. Theater 120A, 120B and 120C explore different elements of screen performance and can be taken in any order.
Professor Joe Olivieri is the Vice Chair of the UCLA Bachelor of Arts in Acting.
