Updated July 4, 2020 G. B. Shaw: “If you want to tell people the truth, you’d be better make them laugh–or they’ll kill you.” George Orwell 91970, p. 329): “You cannot be really funny if your  main aim is to flatter the comfortable classes. It means leaving out too much. To be funny, indeed, you […]

UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Digital Media Course: Film Genres–Musical Movie Professor Emanuel Levy               Schedule of Screenings: M    Jan 12: First Class–Lecture W    Jan 14: The Jazz Singer, Gold Diggers of 1933   M    Jan 19: Martin Luther King Holiday W    Jan 21: Top Hat, Swing Time   M    Jan 26: Forty […]

We have come a long way since Judge Hardy told his son Any (Mickey Rooney) in the popular Andy Hardy film series: “We taught you how to think, your mother and I, and if you make a mistake, it’s our mistake too.” Back in the late 1980s, when I was asked to teach a course […]

“The trouble with teenagers began when some smart salesman made a group of them in order to sell bobby sox.”