Politics of Style: 1980s Film & TV Culture

(5 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The module will examine America in the 1980s. It will look at youth culture, post-Vietnam revisionism and the remasculinization of America, yuppie culture, and the impact of AIDS. Core factors of study in this module are the effects of both New Right morality upon the American socio cultural landscape, and Ronald Reagan as postmodern president administrating to a celluloid America of his own fantastic imagining. Overall, the module will offer the chance to analyse the tensions and contradictions of the decade as they were played out in both the content and structure of contemporary American film.