HIS242

This course (whose title comes from the RuPaul song) examines American culture at different key periods in U.S. history since 1920 through the lens of selected Hollywood films. While the specific chronological parameters may occasionally vary, a recurring focus will be the Great Depression of the 1930s. We will always investigate the dynamic relationship between Hollywood films and American popular culture. For example, during the Great Depression, did Hollywood films affirm prevailing popular values, challenge, or subvert them, or all of these? How and why? HUMN, Offered occasionally.

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