FS265
The War Film
0.5 Credit

Hours per week:
  • Lecture/Discussion: 3
  • Screening: 2

A study of the war film as a genre from silent film to the present exploring historical, formal, and thematic innovations in the representation of war. Course topics may include combat, the home front, homecomings, prisoners-of-war, gender, race, realism, violence, sentimentalism and satire.