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Course Description

Join Peter Aglinskas, Indiana University Northwest Fine and Performing Arts faculty member, for a semester of fun and informative forays into the shadowy world of film noir. Presenting a customized combination of classics and hidden gems of the genre, your instructor will feature seven iconic movies representing distinct film noir themes and phases. A lecture and discussion will follow each screening. Creator of the lecture series “The Noir Style in Image, Word, and Sound,” Peter’s courses in the Music and Art Departments at Harper College have been popular with students of all ages for nearly two decades.

 

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:

Phantom Lady (1944)
Dead Reckoning (1947))
Criss Cross (1949)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

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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