Course details

Name: ENLT - 577

Title: FILM STUDIES: FILM CULTURE AND THE AMERICAN SIXTIES

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2022

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will focus on American film culture during the turbulent 1960s. How did a changing Hollywood film industry, new forms of documentary practice and experimental cinema respond to and represent the most salient social and political events of this period? We will focus on the fracturing of the Cold War consensus, the Civil Rights and Black Power movement, the crisis of urban America and counter-cultural protests against the war in Vietnam. But we will also remain focused on questions of film form throughout the semester—changes in Hollywood story-telling, the borrowing of European New Wave styles and the experiments of independent and underground filmmakers. We will also read seminal texts from the period, including work by James Baldwin, C. Wright Mills and Norman Mailer. Films to be studied include The Manchurian Candidate, Midnight Cowboy, Medium Cool, and Nothing but a Man among others.

Last updated on 2021-09-27 By Simon Arthur (simona)

Schedule: Monday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Film)
• Ethnic Studies (3b)
• Graduate (BA/MA)

Teaching Faculty: Simon Arthur (simona)

Is course canceled: No