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Medieval History and Cinema
HIST 131

Course Information

Description

This course deals with the challenges of representing medieval history by focusing on selected films, which will be viewed at two levels at once, as films and as history. What are the uses of cinema as a vehicle for thinking about the past? What qualities, other than accuracy, make for good history in films? What are the advantages, if any, of cinematic representation of the premodern past with its different sense of intimacy with the supernatural?

Course Notes

There will be a group viewing of selected films each week and a class meeting to discuss films and related readings. This course can meet either the "Pre-1750" or the "Beyond North America" History Concentration requirement, but not both. Former course number "Hist 88B."

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
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Department History
Course Component Seminar
Subject History
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution Social Sciences
Course Level Primarily for Undergraduate Students