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Looking for a cool and different course to take in the fall? Check this one out! 

Looking for a cool and different course to take in the fall? Check this one out! 

The English Department is offering three new courses for the Spring 2011 semester: ENGL 2150, Critical Introduction to Cinema Studies with Jans Wager (jans.wager@uvu.edu) ENGL 373R, Propaganda with Gae Lyn Henderson (gaelyn.henderson@uvu.edu) ENGL 486R, Kafka and Poststructuralism, (christaa@uvu.edu) Click HERE for more information and remember to register early for these incredible courses.

The English Department is offering three new courses for the Spring 2011 semester:

ENGL 2150, Critical Introduction to Cinema Studies with Jans Wager (jans.wager@uvu.edu)
ENGL 373R, Propaganda with Gae Lyn Henderson (gaelyn.henderson@uvu.edu)
ENGL 486R, Kafka and Poststructuralism, (christaa@uvu.edu)

Click HERE for more information and remember to register early for these incredible courses.

You will not want to miss this!  Post-Soviet Russian Media and Film (RUS 416R)Liberated from communist ideology following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian filmmakers refused to construct a bright future or defend spiritual values.  Instead they portrayed the reality surrounding them without ideological constraints: beggars and impoverished pensioners on the streets, Mafia shootings, economic chaos, war in Chechnya, the emergence of a new social class and a society under reconstruction. Visual media is examined with special attention paid to the embedded cultural discourse that can only be understood with references to Russian history, language, and cultural identity.  This cultural discourse is explored in Russia’s depiction of and relationship with its past, present and future. These explorations, in turn, raise certain questions about visual media in post-Soviet society: What is the function of cinema in the new Russia?  Should cinema offer what realitycannot provide: a goal for people to live up to at a time when politics and ideology fail to provide direction?  Does cinema articulate the reality of contemporary Russian life or is it portraying a grotesque or idealized version?

You will not want to miss this! 

Post-Soviet Russian Media and Film (RUS 416R)
Liberated from communist ideology following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian filmmakers refused to construct a bright future or defend spiritual values.  Instead they portrayed the reality surrounding them without ideological constraints: beggars and impoverished pensioners on the streets, Mafia shootings, economic chaos, war in Chechnya, the emergence of a new social class and a society under reconstruction.

Visual media is examined with special attention paid to the embedded cultural discourse that can only be understood with references to Russian history, language, and cultural identity.  This cultural discourse is explored in Russia’s depiction of and relationship with its past, present and future. These explorations, in turn, raise certain questions about visual media in post-Soviet society: What is the function of cinema in the new Russia?  Should cinema offer what reality
cannot provide: a goal for people to live up to at a time when politics and ideology fail to provide direction?  Does cinema articulate the reality of contemporary Russian life or is it portraying a grotesque or idealized version?