LITERATURE 138 - Film and Mass Culture.Morrison

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Claremont McKenna College

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Description:

This course will examine film as art and as medium in the context of the rise of 20th-century "mass culture." Wewill take up such topics as the role of film in producing the ideas of "mass culture;" the cinematic representationof the "masses;" film as an instrument of thestandardization of culture and as a mode of resistance to it; film and modernism; film and postmodernism; representations of fascism in cinema; and "subculture"considered as an effect of mass culture. Offered every third year.

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1.50

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.claremontmckenna.edu/

Phone Number:

(909) 621-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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