Robert A. Rosenstone, ed. Film and the Construction of a New Past . Vivian Sobchak, ed. The course meets once a week as a seminar. Students are expected to screen assigned videos before class and to participate actively in class discussions.
Discussions focus on required readings and screenings, as well as on student research projects.
Class attendance and keeping up with assigned readings and screening is mandatory. If you cannot attend a class, you must notify the instructor. Each person in the class will take notes on the reading at least once during the semester and reproduce them for the class. This journal should also include detailed notes and comments on each week's screenings. A public history presentation in the form of a visual narrative that deals with an event of the 1950s, consisting of two parts.