Dramatic Writing Forms and Genres

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This course will provide a survey and analysis of dramatic writing forms and genres across major dramatic media from adaptations, plays, feature-length screenplays, short screenplays, half-hour sitcoms, prime-time one-hour network and pay-cable dramas and “dramedies, “the “limited series” and dramatic series available on internet venues. Central to the course will be a study of comparative dramatic structures, genres, conventions, styles and modes of storytelling.