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Hollywood and History: The Past of the Future

COM LIT 9 (4.0 units) – Session I

Words like ‘progress,’ ‘development,’ ‘growth,’ and ‘advancement,’ are central to how we think about our own lives as we supposedly move towards ‘maturity,’ are they not? This course will examine contemporary films by Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, Alejandro Iñárritu, Bong Joon-Ho, and Daniel Kwan, among others, which ask us to rethink such ‘linear’ ways of thinking about individual development and historical time. Some of the themes we will focus our discussions on include individual agency, political action, globalisation, and alternative histories. (IV and VII).