This course explores the myriad and changing roles of the automobile in American culture. Through numerous examples of car culture in literature and film, this course interrogates, celebrates and ponders both the past and future of one of modern technology’s most remarkable and influential inventions. A survey of literary and cinematic case studies are used in the course to establish an ongoing, theoretically geared discussion of the Wondrous Machine.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DEN 239