Course Description
Summary
The raucous and repressive but also radical and recalcitrantly white supremacist period c. 1918-1941 has many names. In the U.S. this generation-long span between the two World Wars encompasses or overlaps, e.g. The Harlem Renaissance, The Jazz Age, The Depression, Prohibition, The Dust Bowl, The Progressive Era, and Jim Crow. In this visual studies course, we鈥檒l investigate and analyze emerging forms of cultural production born out of an America at odds with its future, its past, and the lives its increasingly diverse population imagine for themselves. Among our concerns: images of the "new woman"; tropes of 鈥渨hite passing鈥; photography as documentary/art; performances of transness and queerness; religious revivalism; musicals and talkies, etc.
