Undergraduate Winter Session 2009 (scroll down for course description)

AMS3691
9/11 Culture: The Response on Film

Professor: Jeffrey Melnick
Credits = 2 Advanced Liberal Arts
Cost = $2256.
Payment for this course is due: At the time of registration

Meeting Times: Mon/Tues/Thurs 8:15 – 11:45
Final: TBA

Meeting Room: TBA
Capacity: 30

"In this course we will examine the many attitudes and strategies that American filmmakers have brought to the question of how to respond to the events of 9/11. From the high seriousness of Steven Spielberg to the high comedy of Team America, students in this course will be exposed to a range of ways that 9/11 has entered the American film vocabulary. The class will require some out of class viewing, as well as a number of research-oriented essays. Other films to be studies might include Spike Lee's 25th Hour, Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, and the Showtime miniseries Sleeper Cell