IMAGINING THE PAST: FILM, FICTION, AND HISTORY

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Lower-Level Course URL: pwc.rice.edu/

In the twentieth century and beyond, movies and television serve as an important source of mythologized national narratives (or somewhat “faked news”) from war movies, to westerns, to “biopics” of figures such as Kenneth Turing. Are their patterns of distortion at work, we can identify? How do we correct them?