Neglected Landscapes: The Environment through Film and Creative Writing

Catalog description

This team-taught course combines the experience and analysis of film with the practice of responding to film through creative writing. The thematic focus of viewing and writing will be “neglected landscapes,” those environments that have been ignored, overlooked, forcefully abused. Examples of areas that may be explored through their depiction in film include New Orleans, the American West, the Great Plains, and the Deep South.