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Course Description

Examine film noir as a cultural lens on post World War II America in this six-session course. Drawing on film clips, photography, literature, and music, we will analyze how noir aesthetics reflected and shaped attitudes toward crime, gender, race, and existential anxiety. Designed for lifelong learners and film enthusiasts, this course situates noir within a broader artistic and historical context, offering both critical insight and lively discussion.

No Class 3/25 and 4/22.

 

Course Outline

We shall view six iconic films from the Noir canon and discuss them afterwards in terms of style, content, and resonance with literary, artistic, and fashion elements that are historically congruent with these films:

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
The Window (1949)
The Narrow Margin (1952)
The Big Combo (1955)
Nightfall (1957)

Learner Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to be familiar with the principal tenets of Film Noir.
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