2016-2017 Academic Catalog 
    
    Dec 04, 2024  
2016-2017 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SCRN 120 - History of U.S. Film Since 1950


The history of post-WWII American cinema is the story of an ongoing series of adjustments to (or developments within the context of) instability in postwar film business: film noir, 3-D, biblical epics, blockbusters, art film influences, “new blood” from TV and film schools, Black filmmaking, revisionist genre films, high-concept filmmaking, etc. Further complicating this process of adjustments, cinema was overlaid onto, and consequently influenced by, the political turmoil within American society in general: the “Red Scare,” the Vietnam War, the emergence of a mass counterculture, the antiwar movement, Watergate, Reaganomics, the end of the Cold War and increasingly vocal demands by women and minorities for social equality (and media representation).

Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: HP

Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year