Cinema Studies and Women's Studies Courses
Graduate Certificate Programs in Cinema Studies & Women's Studies
The Cinema Studies and Women's Studies programs offer graduate certificates for students enrolled in the M.A. or Ph.D. program. Please visit the websites linked above for more information about enrolling in these certificate programs.
The courses listed below may be taken for credit toward M.A. or Ph.D. degrees and graduate certificate programs with approval from the Graduate Coordinator.
Women's Studies
2008-2009 Women's Studies Certificate courses, including Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies (GCWS) courses like Gender, Armed Conflict, and Peacemaking may be taken for credit toward the Master's or PhD with approval from the Graduate Coordinator. Please get approval before you apply for a GCWS course.
Cinema Studies
Spring 2009
HST G219: The Image of Russia in American Culture
Harlow Robinson, Professor of Modern Languages and HistoryThursday, 4:35 - 7:35 PMKey# 75901
The course will examine the origins and evolution of the perception and representation of Russia and the USSR in American culture during the period from the 1917 Revolutions to the collapse of the USSR in 1991, with special attention paid to the Cold War period (1945-1991). In investigating this "image" we will examine texts drawn from history, fiction, non-fiction and cinema. The goal is not only to understand better the ideological and historical basis of the privileged American image of Russia (the other "superpower" for most of the twentieth century), but also to reflect upon the mechanisms behind the popular representation of any national and racial stereotypes. We will also attempt to answer the question: to what extent do these images reflect popular attitudes, and to what extent do they shape them?
Texts include "We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History" by John Lewis Gaddis, "Ten Days that Shook the World" by John Reed, "We the Living" by Ayn Rand, "An Unfinished Woman" by Lillian Hellman, "A Russian Journal" by John Steinbeck, "Pnin" by Vladimir Nabokov" and "Gorky Park" by Martin Cruz Smith.
Films include "Reds," "October," "Rasputin and the Empress," "Nintochka," "North Star," "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "The Manchurian Candidate," "Dr.Strangelove," "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!," "Gorky Park" and "Red Dawn."
Fall 2008
ENGG261: Medieval Literature: “Reading/Watching the Middle Ages—Text and Film”
Kathleen Kelly, Professor of English
Thursday, 3:30 – 5:45 p.m.(MAC, PLC)
Spring 2008
ENGG 332: Topics in Film: Surrealism
Inez Hedges, Professor of French, German, and Cinema Studies Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies
ENGG 351: Topics in Literary Study Irish Film and LiteraturePatrick Mullen, Assistant Professor of English
Fall 2007
HST G219: The Image of Russia in American Culture Harlow Robinson, Professor of Modern Languages and History Please refer to the Spring 2009 course description for HST G219.
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