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Film, literature and the never-ending war- Get back in the classroom with Yale!

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Washington D.C. - Spring Courses

Susanna Lee '92, '99 Ph.D

Hard-boiled Crime Fiction

Professor Susanna Lee

Tuesdays, March 5 - April 9, 6:45 - 8:15 p.m.

The Blake Building- 1025 Connecticut Ave, Washington D.C.

$395

Course Description:
This course will examine the hard-boiled, or “noir” crime fiction published in America from 1923 to 1952. In the course, we will read hard-boiled fiction both as literature and as particular articulations and enactments of American culture. We will focus on the historical and cultural problems brought out in hard-boiled fiction: organized crime, the Depression, Prohibition, the second World War, and the nuclear threat. Consideration will be given as well to the connection of hard-boiled literature to cinema and cinematic violence. Readings will include novels by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane. Topics of discussion will include the source and nature of American ethics, the pertinence of religious and judicial and aesthetic principles to ethics, and the place of violence in American culture and character.

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Antonio Barrenechea '04 Ph.D

Celluloid Capital: Washington in Cinema

Professor Antonio Barrenechea

Wednesdays, March 6 - April 24, 7 - 8:30 p.m. (no class April 17)

The Blake Building- 1025 Connecticut Ave, Washington D.C.

$395

Course Description:

Since its founding in 1790, Washington, DC has served one major function in the public imagination: national politics. Unsurprisingly, this association would extend to representations in cinema. Beginning with silent films, the motion pictures featured heads of state serving the call of duty, usually in dire times. Yet, the 100-year history of the movies also tells a different, if underestimated, story of the nation’s capital. As a Washingtonian and a professor of cinema for the last ten years, I seek to complicate the view that the city is a stand-in for politics. During our seven-week course, we will examine five film genres that place the capital at the center, but in various ways. On the final week, we will consider DC as a proud purveyor of cinema by retracing the history of its exhibition spaces. The class will meet for a screening at one of the area’s great movie palaces: The Silver Theater.

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Dr. Mary Habeck '89 MA, '96 Ph.D

The Never-Ending War: The U.S. Confronts Extremism

Professor Mary Habeck

Thursdays, March 7 - April 11,

10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

The Blake Building- 1025 Connecticut Ave, Washington D.C.

$450

Course Description:

This class dissects how the United States has attempted to defeat the extremists, al-Qa’ida and ISIS, and why these attempts have, at least so far, failed. Beginning with the formation of al-Qa’ida during the Afghan Jihad, we will examine the policies, strategies, and tactics employed by the U.S. and others to defeat or at least degrade violent groups and the ideology that they espouse—jihadi-salafism. After a short thematic introduction to U.S. national security ideologies and policies toward terrorism, insurgency, and religious extremism, the class will take a chronological look at the war itself, showing how we have fought our war with al-Qa’ida and ISIS and why we have failed to definitively defeat these particular extremists and their ideology. The course will end by asking if this is a war that we can win

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Join Yale Alumni College

for a weekend trip to Cooperstown, N.Y. for opera and fun.

August 1-4

Cooperstown, N.Y.

This trip includes:

- 4 performances at the Glimmerglass Festival

- 3 nights accommodation at The Otesaga

Resort Hotel

- Passes to three Cooperstown museums

- Access to Otsego Lake and top rated golf course

- Daily talks with Francesca Zambello, director; Joseph Colenari, music director; Faith Gay, litigator; and Kelley Rourke, dramaturg

- Plus many great meals and more!

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