Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: CRIME AND THE CITY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Bringing together detective fiction and film noir, the course attempts to discuss how the city as a space of modernity is negotiated in Asia. It will use the figure of the detective as a conduit to elaborate issues of economy, sexuality and the encounter with the local and the global, the inside and the outside and notions of belonging. Cross-list: ASIA 312.