Arts of Affluence [3]: Families and Inheritance (Planning)

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Family legacies often have unintended consequences. Through the close reading and discussion of fiction and non-fiction works and the consideration of two films,  this course will explore the types and consequences of family legacies and consider the ways in which such legacies can be designed to help and not hurt. Texts will include: Hughes’s Family Wealth, Hausner and Freeman’s The Legacy Family, Williams and Preisser’s Philanthropy, Heirs and Values and Condon and Condon’s Beyond the Grave as well as Booth Tarkington’s The Magnificent Ambersons, Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and William Shakespeare’s King Lear.

Texts
  • Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons
  • Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Shakespeare, King Lear
  • Satir, The New Peoplemaking
  • Hughes Jr., Family Wealth
  • Hausner and Freeman, The Legacy Family
  • Williams and Preisser, Philanthropy, Heirs and Values
  • Condon and Condon, Beyond the Grave
Films
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Capra, 1936, 115 min, English)
  • The Ultimate Gift (Sajbel, 2006, 114 min, English)
TAUGHT: SPRING 2014, SPRING 2015