2025 Summer Session A
6 weeks, May 27 - July 3
ENGLISH 176 002 - LEC 002
Literature and Popular Culture
Literature in the Century of Film
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
9
Enrolled: 21
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 30
Waitlist Max: 10
No Reserved Seats
Hours & Workload
5 to 7.5 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 22.5 hours of outside work hours per week, and 2.5 to 0 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.
Course Catalog Description
Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Class Description
This course is about the intersections between literature and Hollywood film across the twentieth century and into the present. We will look at novels and films which not only help us better understand the social implications of media technologies, but also show how literature itself tries to understand its place as one medium among many. The class will consider such topics as the status of reading in a culture of looking, the politics of the extremely popular, celebrity as a way of life, and the commercial origins of the modern work of art. Of particular interest will be texts that address directly the mythology of Hollywood, as well as writers who borrow liberally from film technique as an aesthetic resource.
Class Notes
Book List:
Nathanael West, Day of the Locust;
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon;
Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays;
William Gibson, Pattern Recognition;
Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun.
Films will include Sunset Boulevard, Singin' in t.. show more
Nathanael West, Day of the Locust;
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon;
Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays;
William Gibson, Pattern Recognition;
Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun.
Films will include Sunset Boulevard, Singin' in t.. show more
Book List:
Nathanael West, Day of the Locust;
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon;
Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays;
William Gibson, Pattern Recognition;
Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun.
Films will include Sunset Boulevard, Singin' in the Rain, and Peeing Tom. show less
Nathanael West, Day of the Locust;
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon;
Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays;
William Gibson, Pattern Recognition;
Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun.
Films will include Sunset Boulevard, Singin' in the Rain, and Peeing Tom. show less
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Requirements class fulfills
Meets Arts & Literature, L&S Breadth
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats
Textbooks & Materials
Associated Sections
None