American Film Noir
AFVS 198
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Description
This seminar offers a critical survey of American film noir, the cycle of dark, fatalistic crime films that flourished in Hollywood during the period between 1940 and 1960 and remains deeply influential today. Focusing on the close study of key films, the seminar will explore the dominant iconography, tropes and patterns within them in the specific socio-cultural contexts of post-war America and deeper changes at work within the Hollywood studio system and American popular culture.
Class Notes
SPRING 2027: Interested students will complete a questionare, found on the course web site, to be considered for admission to this course.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
Art, Film, and Visual Studies
Course Component
Seminar
Subject
Art, Film, and Visual Studies
Grading Basis
FAS Letter Graded
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
N/A
Course Level
For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
