Revolutionary Film: Interwar Europe through Cinema

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This course examines the explosive history of Interwar Europe, 1918-1939, through the era’s most revolutionary artistic medium: film. Through film we explore how people across Europe attempted to make sense of the foundational events of the period, including the Russian Revolutions, the interwar sexual revolution, the Great Depression, the consolidation of global racial regimes, and the rise of Fascism. Throughout, we focus on how films grappled with questions of changing class, sexual, and racial relations in a period marked by violent political revolution and massive social upheaval.