ENGL 087. American Narrative Cinema

(Cross-listed as FMST 021)
This course surveys U.S. narrative film history with an emphasis on the Hollywood studio era. We consider how genres such as the western, the melodrama, and film noir express aspirations and anxieties about race, gender, class and ethnicity in the United States. Film is understood as narrative form, audiovisual medium, industrial product, and social practice. Classical Hollywood is approached as a national cinema, illuminated by attention to independent narrative traditions (“race movies,” New Queer Cinema).
20th/21st c.
Humanities
Writing course.
1 credit.
Eligible for FMST
Spring 2025. White.
Catalog chapter: Film and Media Studies
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature

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