Academic Catalog 2018-2019 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Academic Catalog 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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MLT 294 - Generation X: Global Youth Culture in Fiction and Film

Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) In this course we will examine the production of Generation X literature and culture worldwide. We will begin the course by gaining an understanding of the roots and meaning of “Generation X” since the US post-war period, to its various outgrowths around the world. We will examine how the axis of a “GenX” consciousness plays itself out in countries around the world in narrative, film, art, and music. Possible authors, artists and directors include Canadian Douglas Coupland, American Richard Linklater, Spaniard Ray Loriga, Chilean Alberto Fuguet, Bolivian Edmundo Paz-Soldan, Australians Andrew McGahan and Justine Ettler, Icelandic author Hallgrimur Helgason, British artist Sarah Lucas, Chinese writers Mian Mian and Wei Hui, Russian Viktor Pelevin, Check writer Jachym Topol, and others. In this course, students will create their own short films through a careful, task-by-task research and creative idea generation process, they will receive training using iMovie, and they will learn about the ethical and lawful use of digital media material. For MLT Spanish credit, students must engage in a research / film project related to the Hispanic world. CC: HUM, LCC



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