FNMS 298 - Film Genres

What makes a western a western? What’s the difference between sci-fi and fantasy? This course will explore how genres like these form and change over time, as a way of examining how the film industry responds to shifting audience tastes and cultural values. We’ll also explore how the animating tensions of Hollywood genre cinema—civilization v. the wild; whiteness v. the Other; justice v. vengeance; emotion v. reason—play out in stories that seem at once thoroughly fantastical and uniquely American.

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