Josh Stadtner

This class will examine paranoid post-war American literature and cinema with a particular focus on its relationship to the revolutionary energy of the 1960s. We will read short works by Philip K. Dick, Sam Greenlee, Thomas Pynchon, Joan Didion, and Diane Johnson. Possible films are The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor, and Soylent Green. Secondary texts will include Jameson, Foucault, Freud, Marx, Donna Haraway, and Eve Sedgewick.