Reply to I am currently preparing a film genres course for next fall on the B'way musical to screen. I am wondering if anyone out there has taught a similar course and, if so, would they be willing to send me a syllabus? While there are many films to choose from, I am hoping to utilize films with an historic, economic and artistic significance. If anyone has any suggestions for films (and the reasons why) they feel might behoove a course of this nature, feel free to chime in, I am very open to ideas. Thanks in advance, my e-mail is [log in to unmask] Dick Clawson, S.J. I was just thinking about this subject. I haven't done a course specifically on that but I was thinking about On the Town and the way they de-camped it and threw out a lot of the Bernstein songs for being too avant-garde when MGM produc ed the film. Rick Altman suggests in his book that you follow the career of Rouben Mamoulian from stage to screen and back. he cites a whole list of works that would be accessed this way including Porgy and jBess, Oklahoma!, Summer Holiday, Silk Stockings. Also I would follow out Agnes de Mille's choreography.At the end of the course it wold be interesting to look at recent screen-to-stage adaptationssuch as Singin' in the Rain, Twenthieth Century, Meet Me in St. Louis, Forty Second Street, etc.Jane Feuer