Course Info: HACU-0166
| Course | HACU-0166 Urban Imagination in Lit&Film |
| Long Title | Urban Imagination in Literature and Film |
| Term | 2017F |
| Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Emily Dickinson Hall 4 on M,W from 1:00-2:20 |
| Faculty | Jennifer Bajorek |
| Capacity | 23 |
| Available | 2 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
Culture, Humanities, and Languages |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | In this course, students are expected to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time. |
| Description | This course interrogated concepts of the city and of urban imagination through literature and film set in or featuring cities both real and fictive. Specific themes and problems included the relationship between the city and capital; figures of the masses and the crowd; circulation and control; boredom and novelty; the aesthetic, psychosocial, and political significance of architectural structures; the rise of the megacity and post-industrial dystopias. Readings were loosely organized around three cities--Paris, New York, and Johannesburg--and included Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Wong Chin Foo, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Giannina Braschi, Phaswane Mpe, Ivan Vladislavic, and multiple films. |