Television Studies

Noir - as a style, movement, or sensibility - has its roots in hardboiled detective fiction by writers like Chandler and Hammett, and films adapted from their novels were among the first called "film noir" by French cineastes. But film isn't the only medium with a taste for a dark story. Hundreds of noir dramas have been produced for television, featuring detectives and femmes fatales, gangsters, and dark deeds, continuing week after week, with a new disruption of the social order. In TV Noir, television historian Allen Glover presents the first complete study of the subject.

This course is geared to those of you who don't know any Spanish and want to start from the very beginning. It is also intended for those who have a basic knowledge but feel their language skills are not good enough, their vocabulary is insufficient, or their sentences just don't come out right. Our motto is to give each student the opportunity to work at his/her own pace...no need to rush...and practice as many times as desired.

This course is geared to those of you who don't know any Spanish and want to start from the very beginning. It is also intended for those who have a basic knowledge but feel their language skills are not good enough, their vocabulary is insufficient, or their sentences just don't come out right. Our motto is to give each student the opportunity to work at his/her own pace (no need to rush) and practice as many times as desired. This is the advantage of self-learning!