Module Identifier | AS30220 | ||||||||
Module Title | CONTEMPORARY AMERICA | ||||||||
Academic Year | 2003/2004 | ||||||||
Co-ordinator | Professor Timothy S Woods | ||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||||||||
Other staff | Mrs Carol M Marshall, Dr Helena Grice, Dr Robert Harrison | ||||||||
Pre-Requisite | AS10120 , AS10220 | ||||||||
Co-Requisite | AS30020 , AS30120 | ||||||||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | 20 Hours 10 x 2 hr | |||||||
Assessment |
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1. Representing the Vietnam War
2. The US and Vietnam, 1945-75
3. The Nature of the Conflict in Vietnam
4. Reagan and the ?New Right?
5. The Culture Wars: Religion and Society in Contemporary America
6. The ?Underclass? Debate
7. ?Greed is Good?
8. A Multicultural Society
9. Polarised Communities
10. Dystopian Visions
Required Reading
Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera
Tim O?Brien, In the Lake of the Woods
Required Viewing
Blade Runner (Dir. Ridley Scott, 1982)
Lone Star, (Dir. John Sayles, 1996)
Do the Right Thing (Dir. Spike Lee, 1989)
Full Metal Jacket (Dir. Stanley Kubrik, 1987)
Wall Street (Dir. Oliver Stone, 1987)
This module is at CQFW Level 6