AMST 1143 - Space Cowboys: The 60s Hero

(HA-AS)

Summer. 4 credits.

J. Pickett.

The close of World War II marks the beginning of America’s ascendancy to unrivaled prosperity and political power. But it also marks the beginning of an American self-examination whose fiercest discontent found expression in the 1960s, in part through the youth movement. We’ll look at novels by Kerouac, Kesey, and cover as well as films like Easy Rider and Fight Club to see how acertain kind of revolution continues to rewrite American ideas and ideals while maintain and developing connections with quintessentially American ideas and ideals found in Transcendentalism and the myth of the cowboy.