Kursinformation

Drawing on popular films and best-selling novels, this course will examine the ways in which U.S.-Americans have tried and continue to try to make sense of their political world. What did they see as the main threats to democracy? How did they believe these threats should be addressed? How did they define political corruption and what did they believe was the best way to deal with it? How did they understand the media and its role in the political sphere? What role did they reserve for citizens? The ways in which Americans answered such questions changed over time, depending on the political events and the historical forces of the day. But those answers go a long way toward making sense of the current US.-American political landscape.