Course Objectives

To gain a sound understanding of the principal literary and visual art movements of the 19th and 20th centuries and of the works of prominent artists within those periods. Along the way we'll take advantage of London's theatres and museums to enrich our understanding of these movements and artists.

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Course Comments

"Professor Fawell is amazing and very effective lecturer. Good personality and sharp! The course works well with London!" Anon., Summer 2009

"Fawell is an amazing professor. Makes the most boring and abstract things seem interesting!" Anon., Summer 2009

"Such a fun class! I truly enjoyed this course and definitely learned a lot." Anon., Summer 2009

"The class was stimulating and productive, [with] a fun and enthusiastic setting." Anon., Summer 2009

Faculty Information

John Fawell's undergraduate degree is in General Studies in the Humanities, his MA and PhD in Comparative Literature, both from the University of Chicago. Fawell has published articles on film, classical literature ("Oedipus Rex"), and 19th-century English (Tennyson), French (Paul Valery), and Russian (Tolstoy) literature. In the past few years he has been studying film more exclusively, though, concentrating on contemporary French (Eric Rohmer, Robert Bresson, Jacques Tati) and classic American film. His books are Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well Made Film (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), The Art of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (Macfarland Press, 2004), and, most recently, The Hidden Art of Hollywood: In Defense of the Studio Era Film (Praeger, 2008).

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