GREEN SCREEN: ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVES THROUGH FILM
From Teddy Roosevelt's 1909 African safari to the Hollywood blockbuster King Kong, from the world of Walt Disney to The March of the Penguins, cinema has been a powerful force in shaping public and scientific understanding of nature throughout the twentieth and twenty-first century. How can film shed light on changing environmental ideas and beliefs in American thought, politics, and culture? And how can we come to see and appreciate contested issues of race, class, and gender in nature on screen? Explore such questions and come to understand the role of film in helping to define the contours of past, present, and future environmental visions in the United States, and their impact on the real world struggles of people and wildlife throughout the world.
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Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities or Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Interpret film as a historical document and place it in a particular historical context. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe the changing historical contours of environmentalism and how the past continues to shape diverse perspectives relating to the meaning and representation of "the environment," particularly with respect to issues of class, gender, and race. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify major environmental issues and controversies of the past, present, and future in the United States and around the world. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Interpret film as a historical document and place it in a particular historical context. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe the changing historical contours of environmentalism and how the past continues to shape diverse perspectives relating to the meaning and representation of "the environment," particularly with respect to issues of class, gender, and race. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify major environmental issues and controversies of the past, present, and future in the United States and around the world. Audience: Undergraduate
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- GREEN SCREEN: ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVES THROUGH FILM · 3 credits.