CINE 325 - Special Topics in Cinema Studies: Imagining Hollywood

This class explores the ways in which “Hollywood has been portrayed in the cultural imagination of America over the last century. A wide range of visual and written texts will be examined in order to think about how Hollywood has shaped, and been shaped by, American culture, particularly within three crucial, overlapping periods: the era of the Studio System (1927-1960); the age of American cinephilia (1945-1975); and post-classical Hollywood (1960-present).