FLM 396 The Global Cold War and Film
The course will provide an overview of the major people, ideas, and events that have shaped Kentucky’s history. Using a framing of mythology, the course will complicate the ways Kentucky history has been--and continues to be--romanticized in ways that simplify complex historical problems and whitewash historical people, places, and identities. After examining the state’s geography, prehistoric period, and First People, the class will explore the diverse Commonwealth’s social, political, economic, and cultural development from the seventeenth century to the present. Throughout, it will also engage with themes running throughout the state’s history including the evolving relationship between Kentuckians and the land they inhabited and the changing image Kentucky embodied, both to themselves and to the outside world.
Cross Listed Courses
FLM 396