HNAR-360: Campaign Cinema

Campaign Cinema: Politics in American Cinema This course is a review of American dominant films that venture into the themes and visual essaying of American politics and their rituals. The focus on American presidential campaigns is themed since early American film history. The course will outline chronologically that narrative interest and examine films that contemplate subjects of presidential campaign stagecrafting, attempting to connect voter participation, yet often far off from the actual assemblies of administrative and legislative processes. Also to be considered, journalism, a prominent intersecting topic of this film history, as they are the purveyors and tattlers of campaign stagecrafting. What are party platforms and how are they staged in speechwriting and how are they made actual in legislation are grounds for this examination to help the student realize and progress their individual citizenship. Democracy and its configurations will be examined as we parallel consider this history of film and its political propositions. The course will also review and discuss political ads, current and from the past as well as cinematic structures will be examined and critiqued.