DIFF INSIDE FILM with Professor and Author Sean Griffin
We had a packed house last night for DIFF Presents INSIDE FILM: “Hollywood Musical Greats” featuring Sean Griffin, author and Professor of Film and Media Arts in the SMU Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. As promised, a lively discussion between Sean and DIFF Artistic Director James Faust ensued, ranging from what are the most important musicals of all-time to what makes a film a musical. (P.S. They’re still friends.)
Sean Griffin is a Professor of Film and Media Arts in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out and Free and Easy: A Defining History of the American Musical Film, and co-author of America on Film: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies and Queer Images: A History of Lesbian and Gay Film in America. He is currently working on a book project entitled The Gang’s All Here: The 20th Century-Fox Musical and the Carnivalesque.
Prior to becoming a professor, Dr. Griffin helped produce the television ad campaigns for Disney and Touchstone motion pictures, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Dead Poets Society, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Little Mermaid, Pretty Woman, Dick Tracy and Beauty and the Beast.
Special thanks to City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture, Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District, Moody Fund for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts, and Violet Crown Dallas for support that makes this educational program possible.