WAR IN FILM AND LITERATURE

PREREQUISITE: ENGL1012 OR ENGL1012H
This course explores the idea of war and its impact on individuals—combatants and civilians—as well as a nation’s culture and values about war, as these are represented in film and literature. The course asks students to use concepts from the fields of literature, film study, history, and cultural studies to analyze and interpret representations of war, including propaganda, newsreels, archival video, still images, feature films, and military history, in order to consider how individuals experience war and how cultures represent war, present and past.