Hollywood Film

4.0 credits

In this course we will explore “Hollywood” film from diverse perspectives: its history, its style, its business practices, and its power as a force that both mirrors and shapes American society. Students will analyze film sequences and identify how they reflect and revise the “classical” Hollywood style; understand technological, economic and political developments that shape the images on the screen (the coming of sound and color technologies, censorship, the Great Depression, World War II and the Cold War, the representation of racial identities, among others); and examine how film acts as a mediator of social and cultural values.