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Sep 27, 2024
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T3 4110 - Kiss Me Deadly: American Detective Fiction and Film Noir This course explores American detective fiction and film noir, a term that refers to certain “black” or darkly-lit American films of the 1940s and 1950s. It will examine classic examples of detective fiction and film noir as well as more contemporary examples of neo-noir. Although the emphasis will be on the aesthetic character of the texts under discussion, we will also investigate their historical and socio-cultural conditions of possibility as well as related issues of race and class, gender and sexuality, nation and ethnicity.
Requisites: Sr only Credit Hours: 3 General Education Code: 3 Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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