ENG 147A: Film NoirInstructor: William Flesch Prerequisites: None Course Description: This is a course on some of the greatest Hollywood movies of all time, films about the strange, sometimes unexpected relationships between criminals and detectives, and their shared suspicion of cops, films about alienation in the modern city, and how that alienation plays out, sometimes as cynicism, sometimes as a strange sort of idealism. We'll certainly do some classic movies, starting with The Maltese Falcon and including The Big Sleep and Out of the Past. Depending on student interest, we can stick to classic noir or move on to neo-noir in doing movies like Chinatown or Body Heat, cyberpunk, for example Blade Runner, and twenty-first century noirs like Brick. We'll do a total of about ten movies, and immerse ourselves in the noir sensibility, the sensibility that develops when you look at the world, as noir heroes and antiheroes do, as though it's created by the movies. Session: Session I Day: M, T, Th Time: 8:30am - 11:00am Credit Hours: 4 Credits Course Format: Remote Learning Course for Summer 2024 Brandeis Graduation Requirement Fulfilled: HUM Enrollment Limit: 20 students Course Classification: Undergraduate Level Course Course Tuition: $3,700 Course Fees: None Open to High School Students: Yes |
