New Orleans on Stage and Screen

Catalog description

We will explore how the legend of New Orleans was created and reinforced by popular representation in theatre and film works from the 19th century through today. Students will investigate various signifiers of New Orleans through time, watching their rise (and sometimes fall) through performance pieces. We will explore home-grown myth-making as well as visions provided by outsiders, and also get out into the city itself, seeing what truth might lie within the narrative reductions of New Orleans that occupied audiences for the last two centuries.