76-316 Topics in Literature: Watching HBO's The Watchmen

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course is centered on the graphic, social and political universe created by HBOs The Watchmen series. Course viewingsreadings will include the 9episode HBO series from 2019, the original The Watchmen comic series from the 1980s, and various cultural influences on the HBO series, including the musical Oklahoma, and the 1930s era singing group the Ink Spots, whose hit, I Dont Want to Set the World on Fire, is featured in the series. The course will include the intro to film studies text, Writing about Movies, and one of the goals of the course will be for students to write original, accessible, and interesting 1000 word essays about the series to be published on a public website.

Prerequisites: 76-101 or 76-102 or (76-106 and 76-107) or (76-106 and 76-108) or (76-107 and 76-108)

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