Course details
Name: ENFL - 251
Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN FILM STUDIES
Section: 01
Semester: Fall - 2019
Credits: 3
Description:
Special Topics in Film Studies will focus on how American cinema reacted to and represented the struggles, dislocations and politics of the Great Depression. We will study the changing fortunes of Hollywood, in particular the impact of financial hard times and the movie industry’s enforcement of the Production Code in 1934. We will also study how documentary filmmakers, working both within and independently of the federal government, represented key issues of the period. While Hollywood produced films across all genres during this time, we will pay particular attention to films that directly treated the character of the economic crisis. Our syllabus will consist of readings on FDR’s New Deal and the role of federal agencies in promoting the arts, short stories and non-fiction prose from the 1930s as well as essays on film history. Films to be screened include Hallelujah, I’m a Bum (1933), Gabriel Over the White House (1934), Our Daily Bread (1934), The River (1937), Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
Last updated on 2019-03-12 By
Simon Arthur (simona)
Schedule: Thursday From 2:30 pm To 5:15 pm
Graduation requirements:
- Genre Study (Film)
- Class Issues (3d)
Teaching Faculty: Simon Arthur (simona)
Is course canceled: No