FILM BC 3220y - Topics in Cinema:War and Propaganda

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Barnard College

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Examines the changing role of film in dramatizing, promoting and critiquing American participation in the military conflicts over the past 70 years. From the gung-ho patriotism of Howard Hawks's SGT. YORK and the front-line reportage of Lewis Milestone's A WALK IN THE SUN to the ambivalence of John Frankenheimer's THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and the calculated cynicism of Barry Levinson's WAG THE DOG, we explore shifting political perspectives and aesthetic strategies. - D. McKenna Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 55 students. Graduate students, seniors and juniors will be given priority. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points

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3.00

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www.barnard.edu

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(212) 854-5262

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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