21L.021 Comedy

Prereq: none
Units: 3-0-9 HASS-H, CI-H

What’s so funny about being modern? This subject will consider how films, novels, and graphic memoirs imagine the pursuit of happiness despite the varied and vast forms of alienation that characterize modern life. Students will consider work by Charlie Chaplin, Samuel Beckett, Percival Everett, Mohsin Hamid, Alison Bechdel, and many others.