| |
American
Culture and National Identity
in Film |
| July. 7 |
City
Lights and Silent Film |
| July. 8 |
City Lights and Chaplin's Little Tramp |
| July. 9 |
Casablanca:
America and the Good War |
| July. 10 |
Loyalty
and Betrayal in Casablanca |
| . |
McCarthyism
and Conformity in
1950s America |
| July. 13 |
Rear
Window |
| July. 14 |
McCarthyism
and Fear of Communism |
| July. 15 |
Dr. Strangelove and the Insanity of
Nuclear War |
| July. 16 |
Nuclear Fear and the End of the World |
| . |
The
Cold War and the 1960s Rebellion
against the System |
| July. 17 |
Far From Heaven: Women in the 1950s |
| July. 20 |
Far From Heaven |
| July. 21 |
Breakfast
at Tiffany's:
The Modern Woman |
| July. 22 |
Domesticity
and the Modern American Woman |
| July. 23 |
The
Graduate |
| July. 24 |
The
1960s Youth Rebellion against the Government and the System |
| . |
The
Vietnam War and 1970s Post-Watergate America |
| July 27 |
Hearts and Minds and the Nightmare
of the Vietnam War |
| July. 28 |
Television and the American Killing Machine
in Vietnam |
| July 29 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest :
Conformity and 1970s Cynicism |
| July 30 |
Post-Watergate
Cynicism and
America's "Crisis of Confidence" |
| . |
The
1980s and the Growth of
Conservative America |
| July 31 |
Wallstreet
and 1980s Money Culture |
| Aug. 3 |
Reaganomics
and the Decade of
the Yuppie |
| . |
1990's
America and the
End of Innocence |
| Aug. 4 |
American Beauty and the end of
Innocence in late 1990's America |
| Aug. 5 |
Middle-Class Fear and Exhaustion
in the late 20th Century |
| |
Crashing into the 21st Century: Economic Decline and Political Uncertainty |
| Aug. 6 |
Crash and Racial, Class, and
Social Collision in the early 21st Century |
| Aug. 7 |
In-class
Final Exam |
