| |
American
Culture and National Identity
in Film |
| Jan. 14 |
Introduction: The Great Depression |
| Jan. 16 |
Class and Social Status in Silent Film |
| Jan. 21 |
No Class -- Martin Luther King Holiday |
| Jan. 23 |
Loyalty
and Betrayal in Casablanca |
| Jan. 28 |
Post-World War II Culture and Film Noir |
| Jan. 30 |
Darkness and Confusion in early
Cold War Culture
|
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McCarthyism
and Conformity in
1950s America |
| Feb. 4 |
Rear
Window |
| Feb. 6 |
McCarthyism
and fear of Communism |
| Feb. 11 |
Dr. Strangelove and the Insanity of
Nuclear War |
| Feb. 13 |
Nuclear Fear and the End of the World |
| Feb. 18 |
Far From Heaven: Women in the 1950s |
| Feb. 20 |
Far From Heaven and 1950s Conformity |
| . |
The
Cold War and the 1960s Rebellion
against the System |
| Feb. 25 |
Breakfast
at Tiffany's:
The Modern Woman |
| Feb. 27 |
Domesticity
and the Modern American Woman |
| March. 3 |
The
Graduate |
| March. 5 |
The
1960s Youth Rebellion against the Government and the System |
| . |
The
Vietnam War and 1970s Post-Watergate America |
| March 10 |
Apocalypse
Now and the Nightmare
of War |
| March. 12 |
The
American Killing Machine in
Vietnam |
| March 17 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest :
Conformity and 1970s Cynicism |
| March 19 |
Post-Watergate Cynicism and
America's "Crisis of Confidence" |
| March 24-26 |
No Class -- Spring Break |
| . |
The
1980s and the Growth of
Conservative America |
| March 31 |
Wallstreet
and 1980s Money Culture |
| April 2 |
Reaganomics
and the Decade of
the Yuppie |
| . |
1990's
America and the
End of Innocence |
| April 7 |
Do the Right Thing and the Racial Divide
in America |
| April 9 |
Race and Class at the Bottom of
Cold War America |
| April 14 |
Violence, Paranoia, and Despair
in Fight Club |
| April 16 |
Is Fight Club a Comedy about
Paranoia, Nihilism, and Desapair?
|
| April 21 |
American Beauty and the end of
Innocence in late 1990's America |
| April 23 |
Middle-Class Fear and Exhaustion
in the late 20th Century |
| |
Crashing into the 21st Century: Economic Decline and Political Uncertainty |
| April 28 |
Crash and Racial, Class, and
Social Collision in the early 21st Century |
| April 30 |
Race, Class, and Social Alienation in
the 21st Century |
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Take-Home
Final Exam Period |
