Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: FILM, LITERATURE, AND THE JAPANESE PAST

Department: Asian Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Every day, we retell our past to find meaning in our present. Authors and film directors in Japan have shaped national identities, created moral ideas, made sense of the horrors of war, and articulated new visions of the future-- all through artistic reinterpretations of historical themes. In this class, we will examine both these allusions to the past and the uses to which they have been put in Japanese film and literature over the years.