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American
Culture and National Identity
in Film |
| Aug. 28 |
Introduction:
American History and Film |
| Aug. 30 |
City
Lights |
| Sept. 1 |
Class and the Great Depression in City Lights |
| Sept. 4 |
Sept. No Class --Labor Day Holiday |
| Sept. 6 |
Casablanca: Love and Patriotism |
| Sept. 8 |
Casablanca |
| Sept. 11 |
Casablanca: America and the Good War
Loyalty
and Betrayal in Casablanca |
| Sept. 13 |
The
Third Man |
| Sept. 15 |
The Third Man |
| Sept. 18 |
Innocence and Corruption in
the world of Film Noir
|
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McCarthyism
and Conformity
in 1950s America |
| Sept. 20 |
Rear
Window |
| Sept. 22 |
Rear Window |
| Sept. 25 |
McCarthyism
and fear of Communism |
| Sept. 27 |
Far From Heaven: Women in the 1950s |
| Sept. 29 |
Far From Heaven |
| Oct. 2 |
Conformity
and Alienation in
1950s' America |
| . |
The
Cold War and the 1960s Rebellion
against the System |
| Oct. 4 |
Breakfast
at Tiffany's:
The Modern Woman |
| Oct. 6 |
Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| Oct. 9 |
Domesticity
and the Modern American Woman |
| Oct. 11 |
Dr.
Strangelove and the Insanity of
Nuclear War |
| Oct. 13 |
Dr. Strangelove and the Pentagon |
| Oct. 16 |
Nuclear
Fear and the End of the World |
| Oct. 18 |
The
Graduate |
| Oct. 20 |
The Graduate |
| Oct. 23 |
The
1960s Youth Rebellion against the Government and the System |
| . |
The
Vietnam War and 1970s
Post-Watergate America |
| Oct. 25 |
Platoon |
| Oct. 27 |
Platoon |
| Oct. 30 |
The
American Killing Machine in
Vietnam |
| Nov. 1 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Conformity and 1970's Cynicism |
| Nov. 3 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Nov. 6 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Nov. 8 |
Cynicism, Conformity, and Exhaustion
in the 1970s |
| . |
The
1980s and the Growth of
Conservative America |
| Nov. 10 |
Wall Street:
The 1980s Money Culture |
| Nov. 13 |
Wall Street |
| Nov. 15 |
Reaganomics
and the Decade of
the Yuppie |
| Nov. 17 |
Do
the Right Thing |
| Nov. 20-24 |
No Classes--Thanksgiving Holiday |
| Nov. 27 |
Do the Right Thing |
| Nov. 29 |
Race
and Class at the Bottom of
Cold War America |
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1990's
America and the
End of Innocence |
| Dec. 1 |
American Beauty |
| Dec. 4 |
American Beauty |
| Dec. 6 |
American Beauty |
| Dec. 8 |
American Beauty: The End
Innocence in 21st Century America |
| Dec. 11 |
Crash |
| Dec. 13 |
Crash |
| Dec. 15 |
Crash and Social Alienation |
|
Take-Home Final Exam Period |
