Hollywood Film Noir 1940‐1960
SECOND SUMMER INTERSESSION
ENG 388 Section Y19
3 credits Undergraduate
July 2,3,5,6 and 9-12,
Catherine Judd, c.judd@miami.edu
Note: This course satisfies the English literature major requirement for a course in literature since1900
Sample Syllabus
Study the important and far-reaching genre of Hollywood film noir. First watch and discuss films featuring “dangerous women” or “femme fatales” of classic Hollywood. Then follow up paying attention to Noir City of Los Angeles. Examine such films as Niagara starring Marilyn Monroe, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai, and the bizarre and popular retelling of the Medea legend, Leave Her to Heaven.
