LS 731 - The American Sixties: Transformations in Film and Fiction

(3.00 cr.)

Focuses upon the search for an escape from the wasteland in the narratives of a decade of political and social change and instability. Emphasizes film and fiction as products of the culture and as commentators on the culture. Updike, Kesey, Bellow, Roth, Elkin, and others. Films include The Graduate and Easy Rider.