Crime Fiction / Crime Film
ENGL-480-1
Maritime College
- Semester
- Summer 2024
- Instructor
- John Rocco
- Start Date
- 05-28-2024
- Total Credits
- 3
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Crime Fiction/Crime Film is a course about the relationship between crime literature and the American cinema. We will concentrate our studies on the following topics: film genre; the gangster film; pulp fiction and hardboiled writing; film noir and neo-noir; Classical and New Hollywood; and the postmodern crime film. We will be reading the work of the classic crime writers Hammett, Chandler, Cain, and Jim Thompson. And we will also be studying the films of many important film directors including D.W. Griffith, Howard Hawks, John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Martin Scorsese, and Quentin Tarantino.
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and 9 credits in ENGL, HIST or HUMN 100-299.
Course Area: English & Literature
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Dates: 05-28-2024 - 06-28-2024
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