300CD American Social Film: Silver Screen And The American Dream (3)
This course will combine American social history and American film history.
Using Hollywood entertainment films, the course will look at Hollywood as an
indicator of social, political and economic conditions in the United States
from the early 1900s to the late 1950s. The main topics are war and the threat
of war, poverty and affluence, racial tensions, censorship, and political
zealotry. A paper is required and a social history textbook, a film history
textbook, a play by Arthur Miller, an a collection of articles constitute core
readings. This course is offered as a cluster with Communication Studies 402CD
and English 300cd