Melodrama in Art and Film
Melodrama will be discussed on a number of different levels in this course: as a genre, as a meta-genre, and ...
Barbara Stanwyck: Hollywood Gender and Genre
This course will explore the history of American cinema from the early 1930s to the early 1960s, tracing the career ...
American Cinema of the 1950s
Topics in Film History: American Cinema of the 1950s. Hollywood in the 1950s was an industry in decline, even while ...
Epistemologies of the Archive
Filmmakers have been raiding the archive for decades, making new work out of old. The aesthetics of this practice are ...
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin was a prolific writer, whose corpus spans a wide range of genres, from philosophy, to criticism, to autobiography. ...