COURSE CALENDAR

• Unit I: INTRODUCTORY ISSUES
• Unit II: THEORIZING THE CITY / IMAGE-ING THE CITY
• Unit III: FILM NOIR: Small Towns and Big Cities
• Unit IV: FILM NOIR: Style and Substance
• Unit V, Part One: THE CITY AS FRONTIER: The Urban Wild West
• Unit V, Part Two: The Urban Wild West and The Politics of Violence
• Unit VI: IDEOLOGY OF THE WHITE CITY: Utopias and Dystopias
• Part One: The White City and the Chicago World's Fair
• Part Two: White Utopias and the Racial Coding of Urban Film
• Unit VII, Part One: "LITTLE CITIES:" (Im) Migrant Communities of Resistance
  
• Unit VII, Part Two: THE URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD: Local Architecture and the New Urbanism
• Unit VIII: THE URBAN PORTRAITIN "REALITY TV"
• Unit IX: URBAN REALISM: The Urban Politics of Documentary Film
• Unit X: ECONOMIES OF PUBLIC SPACE: The Streets
• Final Examination