Fall 2017  |  ENGL 3040 Section 001: Studies in Film -- War & Film (34943)

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Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
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Student Option
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No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
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Topics Course
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Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Thu 05:30PM - 09:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 315
Course Catalog Description:
Topics regarding film in variety of interpretive contexts, from range/historic development of American, English, Anglophone film.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?craig026+ENGL3040+Fall2017
Class Description:
The war film, as a genre, is always changing. It has often been ambivalent - it's a truism to say that the best war films are antiwar films. Even the "classic" war film, which ostensibly presents us with an immaculate white male hero, often carries a complex and contradictory subtext. These films, as well as some of the more subversive examples of the genre, can be read, sometimes "against the grain," as destabilizing and denaturalizing constructions such as gender, desire, race, nation, the unity of the human body, and the conditions of perception and representation. We will consider several films that do not depict war at all; instead, they focus on its periphery or aftereffects. This course will also examine the many ways in which war and cinema have helped to define each other. The critic, Paul Virilio, famously stated that "war is cinema and cinema is war." This outrageous assertion leads us to the following questions: are the camera and the weapon ontologically linked? How are the systems of war and film interdependent, as interlinked and dynamic technologies of visualization, surveillance and representation?
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34943/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
22 February 2017

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