Students must also enroll in a weekly discussion section. Monday meetings will generally provide students with a broad overview of the era. They will feature a lecture and clips from various newsfilms, documentaries, and feature films of the era. D iscussion sections will be run as seminars in which students will analyze the week's readings and discuss the similarities and dissimilarities in what historians, primary sources, and filmmakers say about a particular era. We will also try to reach some final synthesis concerning the popular images and realities of the age.
Triangulation approach to synthesizing and analyzing history, media, and primary documents.
What we see is not always what we should believe. The elusive nature of power. Different class movements and different modes of representing those movements in film. AND ON THE PAGE Poverty and Okie life depicted in literature and film. Myths of the politics, political heroes, and political manipulation.