POL 282 - Politics and Film

FDR: SS2
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring

No prerequisites. Open to non-majors and majors (counts toward global politics field requirement) of all classes. Recommended for students interested in cinema, political dynamics, Russian area studies. An interdisciplinary study combining social science and humanistic models to help explain the dynamics of political entities. The source of social science theory is dynamic analysis. The sources of cultural analysis are twelve feature films (subtitled), as well as other cultural media such as propaganda, political cartoons, and music over the course of the political transition under study. The empirical focus is epochal regime change in Russia. Grading based on class discussion and essays. C. McCaughrin, G. McCaughrin.