LIT 138 CM -Film and Mass Culture

Institution: Claremont McKenna

Description: This course will examine film as art and as medium in the context of the rise of 20th-century “mass culture.” We will take up such topics as the role of film in producing the ideas of “mass culture”; the cinematic representation of the “masses;” film as an instrument of the standardization 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.

Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

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