HL 90 BY

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2018
We will focus on U.S. popular films produced during the Cold War to gain insight into circulating cultural understandings of the time period. The course will be organized around questions such as how popular culture productions characterized the United States and the world as well as how these films produced and reproduced conceptions of race, gender, and nation. We will also investigate how these films were related to and reflected understandings of United States foreign policy. Course readings, lectures, and discussions will be focused on developing an understanding of the international dimensions of the Cold War and the place of cultural productions, such as film, in history and historical narration.