Reel Cities: Architecture in Film

Reel Cities: Architecture in Film is a Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies class taught by Karen Koehler.

This course satisfies Division I requirements.

Course Description
This interdisciplinary course will explore the role that buildings and the city (both real and imagined) have played in a selection of films: as protagonist, as setting, and as mise en scene. We will consider questions of narrative and of composition, as well as urban and architectural design. Different films (ranging from Metropolis, Third Man and Roma, from Mon Oncle, Blade Runner, and the Matrix, to Man with a Movie Camera, The Truman Show, and more recent works such as Slum Dog Millionaire and the Dark Knight) will be introduced by a variety of scholars and artists. Students will be responsible for a series of critical reviews, presentations, and comparative essays.

Learning Goals

 * Multi-Cultural
 * Project-based
 * Presenting
 * Reading
 * Writing