Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Amerikanisztika Tanszék
- Kód
- BBI-AME17-322E.42
- Cím
- Választható amerikai történelmi szeminárium: Amerikai vizuális kultúra és a második világháború
- Tervezett félév
- Tavaszi
- ECTS
- 5
- Nyelv
- Oktatás célja
- The course explores American visual culture during World War II
- Tantárgy tartalma
- The course focuses on American visual culture during World War II and explores how the war was mediated across a variety of media genres and forms – e.g. war-time photojournalism, newsreels, posters, Hollywood feature films or Disney's educational and propaganda war films – to the broader American public. The course also investigates how these media contents have been utilized for various cultural, educational or political purposes (like morale-building, mobilizing public opinion for war, boosting patriotism, but also reporting from war zones and bearing witness to suffering).
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Students are expected to read the assigned texts, bring their questions, be active in discussions, prepare a single presentation throughout the semester, and sit for an end-of-term written test. The final grades will be calculated on the basis of marks received for 1) active in-class participation, 2) in-class presentation, 3) the test.
- Irodalomjegyzék
- BLUM, John Morton. (1976). V was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II. New York – London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. TAYLOR, Philip M. (2003). Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Present Day. 3rd ed. Manchester: Manchester UP. “War and the Communications Revolution”; “The Second World War”, pp. 173-175; 208-248.