Course Descriptions

400 Level Courses

FILM 405 Film Noir (3,0,0)
FILM 410 Images of the Frontier in Film, Television, and Literature (3,0,0)
FILM 414-3 Films of the Cold War (3,0,0)

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FILM 4050

Film Noir (3,0,0) 3 credits

FILM 4050 examines the evolution of this often celebrated, but also contested body of films. The Film Noir canon has been defined by its highly visual style. Film historian Andrew Spicer (2002) comments: "Film Noir designates a cycle of films that share a similar iconography, visual style (and) night-time city, and streets damp with rain. the films are dominated thematically by existential and Freudian images of weak and hesitant males and predatory femmes fatales.

Prerequisite: 3rd year standing

FILM 4100

The American Frontier in Film, Television, and Literature (3,0,0) 3 credits

FILM 4100 examines the cinematic, television and literary West as a reflection of the realities and unrealities of the American Frontier.

Prerequisite: 3rd year standing

FILM 4140

Films of the Cold War (3,0,0) 3 credits

This course examines selected films that have become symbolic of the fear and paranoia associated with the Cold War.

Prerequisite: 3rd and 4th year standing