Module Identifier | AS30020 | ||
Module Title | AMERICA IN THE ERA OF THE COLD WAR | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Martin Padget | ||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||
Pre-Requisite | AS10120 , AS10220 | ||
Co-Requisite | AS30120 , AS30220 | ||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | 20 Hours 10 x 2 hr | |
Assessment | Semester Assessment | Essay: 2 x 2,500 word essays | 100% |
- Demonstrate a knowledge of historical developments in United States society between 1945 and 1960
- Demonstrate an ability to use and engage with the perspectives of history, politics and literary and film studies to study key aspects of postwar American culture
- Summarize and critique contemporary debates about the definition of American culture in the 1950'r
- Demonstrate developing skills in critical analysis using appropriate interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary resources
- Demonstrate developing skills in oral presentation
1. “The American Century”: The United States in 1945
2. McCarthyism in an International Context
3. McCarthyism in American Life
4. HUAC Goes to Hollywood
5. Suburban America
6. Women in Postwar America
7. Youth Culture
8. The Cultures of Art, Architecture and Music
9. The Beats
10. The Eisenhower Years
Required Reading
Anne Charters, ed., The Penguin Book of the Beats
John Diggins, The Proud Decades
Karal Ann Marling, As Seen on TV
Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
Ellen Schrecker, The Age of McCarthyism
Required Viewing
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Dir. Don Siegel, 1955)
Rebel Without a Cause (dir. Nicholas Ray, 1955)