Welcome to History Through Film!
I am very excited to be teaching this class again this year, and i hope all of you are too. This class is not only going to be a lot of fun, it is going to generate great discussion, you are going to learn a lot, and develop your critical faculties. In addition, I guarantee you are going to view many films you have not seen before. Prepare for a rewarding experience!
We're going to start with two films of MY choice, The Truman Show and The Player. Not about history per se, but appropriate nonetheless. After that, however, I'm going to open up the remainder of the course to you and have you all choose what topics in history you would like to learn about and view through the lens of historical films (see what I did there?). Click the link for our beginning-of-year survey so we can see where we are headed!