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CLSL UN

1 courses with the subject CLSL UN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.

CLSL UN3304How To Read Violence: The Literature of Power, Force and Brutality from 20th Century Russia and America3

This course seeks to understand how authors and filmmakers in the 20th century communicate the experience of violence to their audiences. We will discuss how fragmentation, montage, language breakdown and other techniques not only depict violence, but reflect that violence in artistic forms. We will also ask what representing violence does to the artistic work. Can the attempt to convey violence become an act of violence in itself? We will consider texts from Vladimir Mayakovsky, John Dos Passos, Andrei Platonov, Vasiliy Grossman, Allen Ginsberg, Anna Akhmatova, Richard Wright, Cormac McCarthy, Vladimir Sorokin, as well as films from Sergei Eisenstein, Alexei Balabanov and Quentin Tarantino. Full course description and syllabus available at readingviolence.weebly.com.

Subject: CLSL UN
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Bulletin
Source: bulletin.columbia.edu

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