RUSS 22000 - Russian Culture Through Film

Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, FILM, GMDS)
RUSSIAN CULTURE THROUGH FILM An introduction to twentieth-century Russian society and culture through the medium of cinema, covering the immediate pre- and post-revolutionary periods, Stalinism, the post-Stalin “thaw,” stagnation under Brezhnev, Gorbachev’s “perestroika” and “glasnost,” and the post-communist era. Weekly screenings of films will be supplemented with readings in Russian film theory and criticism. [AH, C, GE]