ENG 250J CX - Tpc in Lit: Noir in Film & Fiction

4 Credit(s)

Noir is an American genre, one of our darkest and getting darker. It was named for us by admiring French critics and is now exported globally. This class will be an exercise in Popular Culture Studies, which borrows from other disciplines (gender studies, anthropology, psychoanalysis, feminism, and so on) to devise an eclectic critical theory. We will move through classic Noir novels and films of the 1940s and 50s, then into neo-Noir, where the formula widens to combine with other genres (e.g., Noir science fiction such as Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner).

Prerequisite(s): W tag or concurrent enrollment in W-tag course.