ENGL 455

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Intensive study of the work of one or two major authors.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours if topics vary. May be repeated for graduate credit if topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 455 class schedule data for fall 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	40444	Lecture-Discussion	1G	9:30AM -11:30AM	TR	English Building	Hansen, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: FA22 ENGL 455, Jim Hansen Alfred Hitchcock and the Perverse Ethics of the Suspense Film Why do we like to be frightened by film? Why do we enjoy the feeling of anxiety produced by suspenseful movies? By focusing on the films that Alfred Hitchcock directed between 1940 and 1960, this course will explore the psychoanalytic and ideological fears that animate some of the most talked about texts in cinema history. Framed by the historical horrors of World War II and the subsequent expansion of American economic and military power, the films of Hitchcock’s most fertile period helped to develop—and simultaneously to conceal—psychological concerns about modern masculinity, sadism, masochism, consumer culture, and, most of all, the cold war. By interrogating films ranging from “Rebecca” to “Vertigo” and “Psycho,” we will attempt to engage not only with the manifest messages of Hitchcock’s cinema, but also with the latent and troubling fears about our society and ourselves that his cinema seems to embody. The course will meet twice a week in a lab format. Generally speaking, we will watch films on one day and discuss them on the next. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	39507	Lecture-Discussion	1U	9:30AM -11:30AM	TR	English Building	Hansen, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: FA22 ENGL 455, Jim Hansen Alfred Hitchcock and the Perverse Ethics of the Suspense Film Why do we like to be frightened by film? Why do we enjoy the feeling of anxiety produced by suspenseful movies? By focusing on the films that Alfred Hitchcock directed between 1940 and 1960, this course will explore the psychoanalytic and ideological fears that animate some of the most talked about texts in cinema history. Framed by the historical horrors of World War II and the subsequent expansion of American economic and military power, the films of Hitchcock’s most fertile period helped to develop—and simultaneously to conceal—psychological concerns about modern masculinity, sadism, masochism, consumer culture, and, most of all, the cold war. By interrogating films ranging from “Rebecca” to “Vertigo” and “Psycho,” we will attempt to engage not only with the manifest messages of Hitchcock’s cinema, but also with the latent and troubling fears about our society and ourselves that his cinema seems to embody. The course will meet twice a week in a lab format. Generally speaking, we will watch films on one day and discuss them on the next. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.