Arts, Sciences, and Engineering					Film and Media Studies
Course Section Listing	Course	Course Title					Term	Credits	Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-192385	FMST 222-01	Russian Movies that Rock					Spring 2025	4.0	Open
Schedule:		Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date MW 1025 AM 1140 AM 01/21/2025 05/11/2025
Enrollment:		Enrolled      5	Capacity      20
Co-Located:		CLTR 272B-01 (P), FMST 222-01, RSST 272-01, RUSS 272-01
Instructors:		Rita Safariants
Delivery Mode:		In-Person
Description:		In the decade preceding the collapse of the USSR, rock music became a galvanizing force for change and an enduring cultural commodity for the last Soviet generation.  The traditionally western musical genre, often maligned by the establishment for its alleged propaganda of anti-socialist ideology, quickly infiltrated everyday like in the USSR and, subsequently, other art forms; most notably, the high regimented Soviet film industry.  This course will examine the representation of rock music in Soviet, post-Soviet and contemporary Russian cinema and will raise questions about the ways in which film popular music engages with sociopolitical events and acts as a destabilizing agent for totalitarianism. Taught in English.
Offered:		Fall Spring