VISST 3522

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VISST 3522
Dark Passages: Film Noir

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

This course examines the origins, evolution, and contemporary resonance of film noir. Beginning with a look at expressionist and crime films of Weimar Germany, we will then examine a body of classic films made in Hollywood by German and Austrian exiles. Film noir of the 1940s and 50s offered mass audiences a critical view of U.S. society, and exiled directors were often ambivalent about their new home, an attitude reflected in films such as Scarlet Street (1945), Detour (1945), and Criss Cross (1949). We will also discuss more recent films with surprising links to both film noir and German expressionism, including Blue Velvet (1986), Dark City (1998), and The Big Lebowski (1998). Themes of the course include migration, trauma, consumerism, and the growth of suburbia.

When Offered Spring.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 3522, PMA 3522

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16476 VISST 3522   SEM 101

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