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American Culture and National Identity in Film |
| Jan. 11 |
City Lights and Silent Film |
| Jan. 13 |
City Lights and Chaplin's Little Tramp |
| Jan. 18 |
Casablanca: America and the Good War |
| Jan. 20 |
Loyalty and Betrayal in Casablanca |
| Jan. 25 |
The Third Man |
| Jan. 27 |
Innocence and Corruption in Film Noir |
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McCarthyism and Conformity in
1950s America |
| Feb. 1 |
Rear Window |
| Feb. 3 |
McCarthyism and fear of Communism |
| Feb. 8 |
Dr. Strangelove and the Insanity of
Nuclear War |
| Feb. 10 |
Nuclear Fear and the End of the World |
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The Cold War and the 1960s Rebellion
against the System |
| Feb. 15 |
Far From Heaven: Women in the 1950s |
| Feb. 17 |
Far From Heaven and 1950s Conformity |
| Feb. 22 |
Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Modern Woman |
| Feb. 24 |
Domesticity and the Modern American Woman |
| March. 1 |
The Graduate |
| March. 3 |
The 1960s Youth Rebellion against the Government and the System |
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The Vietnam War and 1970s Post-Watergate America |
| March 8 |
Apocalypse Now and the Nightmare
of War |
| March. 10 |
The American Killing Machine in
Vietnam |
| March 15 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest :
Conformity and 1970s Cynicism |
| March 17 |
Post-Watergate Cynicism and
America's "Crisis of Confidence" |
| March 22-24 |
No Class -- Spring Break |
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The 1980s and the Growth of
Conservative America |
| March 29 |
Wallstreet and 1980s Money Culture |
| Marchl 31 |
Reaganomics and the Decade of
the Yuppie |
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1990's America and the
End of Innocence |
| April 5 |
Do the Right Thing and the Racial Divide
in America |
| April 7 |
Race and Class at the Bottom of
Cold War America |
| April 12 |
Violence, Paranoia, and Despair
in Fight Club |
| April 14 |
Is Fight Club a Comedy about
Paranoia, Nihilism, and Desapair? |
| April 19 |
American Beauty and the end of
Innocence in late 1990's America |
| April 21 |
Middle-Class Fear and Exhaustion
in the late 20th Century |
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Crashing into the 21st Century: Economic Decline and Political Uncertainty |
| April 26 |
Crash and Racial, Class, and
Social Collision in the early 21st Century |
| April 28 |
Race, Class, and Social Alienation in the 21st Century |
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Take-Home Final Exam Period |
