FILM 41.08 The Cinematic City
This course tracks a quintessentially modern character type--the flâneur/flâneuse--as s/he navigates the cinematic metropolis. Films ranging from early actualities to science fiction, gangster films, musical comedy, and film noir will present the flâneur as a compromised figure who walks a fine line between resistance to the city's rhythms and complicity with its reorganization of subjectivity, affect, collective life, and the senses.
Instructor
P. Young