FLM 268 Hollywood in Depression and War

This course requires students to connect with the tumultuous history of the United States in the 1930s and the 1940s and with the most popular artform of the period – Hollywood film. The course will cover themes such as the Great Depression, the New Deal, 1930s morality and the Hayes Code, fascism abroad and in the United States, the efforts to shore up American democracy, U.S. participation in the Second World War, and the dawn of the Cold War through the lens of film. Over the course of the term, students will apply the historical and film studies approaches to draw out the connection between the artform and the broader society from which it developed.