Course details

Name: ENFL - 251

Title: SPECIAL TOPIC: ACTION CINEMA

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2013

Credits: 3

Description:
Action cinema, like other ‘body genres’, references changing societal conceptions of race, gender and sexuality, refracting them through its particular conventions of narrative, spectacle and stardom. In this course, we will consider American action cinema of the 1980s, an era defined by Reagan-era militarist, patriarchal and capitalist retrenchment at home and abroad. The course will engage extensively with contemporary feminist, queer and race theory, as well as ideological studies of American mass culture and media. Attention will also be paid to East Asian action films that have had a profound influence on the development of the genre. The course will address the films of Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Takeshi Kitano, Paul Verhoeven and John Woo, among others.


Last updated on 2013-03-15 By Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)

Schedule: Monday From 2:30 pm To 5:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Film)
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• Women and Gender Studies (3c)

Teaching Faculty: Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)

Is course canceled: No