| Title: | Freshman Tutorial |
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| Course Section Number: | FRT-101-01 |
| Department: | Freshman Tutorial |
| Description: | The Western: An American Film Genre Michael Abbott teaches Theater, Film, and Interactive Media at Wabash. He is on a mission to help designers build video games that make a difference. The Western is the American mirror. It is the essential folklore and collective dream of American culture, reflecting our greatest hopes and darkest fears, deeply rooted in American cultural mythology. This course will examine the Western as a distinctive film genre, tracing its origins in literature and Wild West shows and analyzing its evolution from the silent era to today. Among the films to be screened and examined are: The Great Train Robbery, Stagecoach, The Searchers, High Noon, Rio Bravo, The Wild Bunch, Unforgiven, Tombstone, No Country for Old Men, Django Unchained, and The Revenant. We will also consider Western genre literature (The Ox-Bow Incident, All the Pretty Horses) and examine its relationship to Western film as a storytelling medium. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 23, 2018 |
| End Date: | December 15, 2018 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/23/2018-12/13/2018 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Goodrich Hall, Room 006
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| Faculty: | Abbott, Mike |
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