Cold War Hollywood: The Case of Alfred Hitchcock

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This course is designed for advanced undergraduates interested in cinema, film theory, critical theory, narrative, and representation. The course offers a broad, accessible introduction to some of the topical issues debated by scholars in the humanities and social sciences, including practices of looking, crime and criminal behavior, troubled personalities, identity theft, romantic coupling, anonymous urban living, the middle-class family, and America during the Cold War period.