Film Aesthetics and History

Examination of film as a medium that has documented, and that has itself been part of some of the major social, cultural, and political transformations of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With an equal emphasis on film analysis and history, the course begins with the birth of the medium in 1895 and its immediate challenge to the dominant Victorian ideology of both Europe and the United States. Later historical topics - all examined through the lens of cinema - include WWI and the Russian Revolution, Germany between the World Wars, the Great Depression, and post-WWII U.S. domestic policy.

Fall, Spring

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