TI 234-HST - Reel America – Film and the American Experience, 1890-1965

Min Units: 3
Max Units: 3
Famed film director Sydney Pollack said of film, “It’s the 20th century’s real art form.” This has been particularly true in the United States, where film has been an important means of transmitting definitions about American values and identity. This course examines the role of film in depicting the American experience in the 20th century and does so with a particular emphasis upon the interpretation of film within a community of other texts drawn from the period. (U) Occasionally