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Class number:
1083
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Title: American Crime Fiction |
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Department: American Studies |
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Career: Graduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Second Quarter |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 4 |
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Current enrollment: 2 |
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Available seats: 2 |
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Start date: Monday, July 11, 2022 |
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End date: Friday, August 12, 2022 |
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Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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Schedule: TR: 6:00PM-9:15PM, N/A |
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Instructor(s): Mrozowski, Daniel |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
Course Description:
Crime fiction has been an amazingly resilient and pliable genre, a cultural barometer registering revisions to cultural fantasies about knowledge and power, sex and gender, race and ethnicity, violence and freedom. Its character types are interwoven into the fabric of popular culture, from the detective to the sociopath, the femme fatale to the street tough. This course will trace an alternative American history through the brutal, lurid, and stylish crime fiction of the 20th century. We will explore its pulp roots through Dashiell Hammett, its modernist peaks with Raymond Chandler, its post-war weirdness in Chester Himes and Patricia Highsmith, and its contemporary renaissance by George Pelecanos. |