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Mar 20, 2026
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MM 306 - Hollywood Cinema
Credit(s): 3
The purpose of this course is to immerse students in American studio cinema produced throughout the 20th century. During this time period, American movies aided in shaping our evolving cultural identity as a nation and emerging world power, contributing to the beliefs, norms, and ideals of “The American Century.” Through the decades, the film industry actively attempted to reflect and provide recreation to a United States that was thrust into the status of the world’s greatest economic force, political superpower, and military might. Throughout the course students are expected to actively engage in both absorbing and dissecting these texts through viewing, critical analysis, and peer discussion. Films, both fiction and non-fiction, are historical texts that inevitably display elements of the society in which they were created and initially viewed. As such, movies have the power to reveal, create, and critique social norms. Hollywood cinema specifically contributed to the creation of an American mythos and notions of American exceptionalism. By studying films and film criticism produced in the United States throughout this period, we develop a more complex understanding of that time period and foster further examination through juxtaposition of our contemporary worldview.
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