Melodrama in Art and Film
In this course, Melodrama is discussed on a number of different levels: as a genre, as a meta-genre, and as a theoretical orientation.
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 of Barbara Stanwyck who made 84 films from 1927 to 1964, and worked with many of the top directors, in many different genres.
American Cinema of the 1950s
Hollywood in the 1950s was an industry in decline, even while it produced some of the strongest films of its history. With the rise of independent productions, the competition of TV, and major shifts in the social fabric, American cinema was dramatically changed during this decade.