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Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin was a prolific writer, whose corpus spans a wide range of genres, from philosophy, to criticism, to autobiography.
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Epistemologies of the Archive
Filmmakers have been raiding the archive for decades, making new work out of old. The aesthetics of this practice
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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
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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
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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