ENGL 368 - Movies and Melodrama

4 HU, WR
First Semester. This course explores the history, cultural contexts, and critical challenges of melodramatic narrative cinema. We’ll study the genre’s origins, the rise and fall of its prestige, its identification as a “feminine” form, its adaptation to different historical and cultural contexts, and its contemporary challenges to cultural analysis. American, Post-1900. This course is cross-referenced with CINE 368.

Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: ENGL 173/CINE 101 and a Cinema Studies Cinematic Traditions course (preferred), or for complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”.
Enrollment Limit: 25.
Mr. Pence

Credits: 3 hours