ENG 3116 Wilson Spring 2021

How has this genre gone from the bedrock of cinema in the late nineteenth century to a niche genre with the rise of Hollywood studio-driven, commercial entertainment in the succeeding one to a more democratized agent for truth telling, technological innovation, and social change in past three decades? This new course, a companion for ENG 3110 (Film Genres) and others, will chart the evolution of the form’s conventions as it continues to redefine the construction of “real”-ness, explore the nature of truth in a post-fact society, and interrogate the politics of representation and the sociological impact of the moving image.