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Jul 01, 2025
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HIS 215 - HISTORY THROUGH FILM
Students will study twentieth-century film as they would study any other piece of evidence such as texts, visual images, especially photography and the arts, artifacts, music, etc. Of these films, students will ask the questions every historian and every researcher asks, both those more superficial (who, what, when, how?) and those more subtle (intended and unintended implicit meaning, evidence about the creator of the artifact, etc.). This is not a course in cultural studies or film studies, but a course in cultural history. Films will include feature films, documentaries, shorts, animated films, etc. Film titles may include all or part of “Birth of a Nation” (1915), “Battleship Potemkin” (1925) “Metropolis” (1927), “Die Büchse der Pandora” (1929), “Der blaue Engel” (1930), “All Quiet on the Western Front” (1930), “Triumpf des Willens” (1934), “Modern Times” (1936) or “The Great Dictator” (1940), “Why We Fight” (1942), “Mrs. Miniver,” (1942),”Cabin in the Sky” (1943), “Best Years of Our Lives” (1946), “Die Mörderer sind unter uns” (1946) or “Citta Aperta” (1945), “Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957), “Ballad of a Soldier” (1959), “Dr. Strangelove” (1964), “Zulu” (1964), “The Battle of Algiers” (1966), “Heat of the Night” (1967), “Look Who’s Coming to Dinner” (1967), “Z” (1969), “Deer Hunter” (1978), “Gandhi” (1982), “The Day After” (1983), “Red Dawn” (1984), “Malcolm X” (1992),” “Downfall” (2004).
Prerequisites & Notes
Offered - Summer
Credits: 3
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