1940s Movies Before, During, and After World War II

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Dates:September 17 - December 10, 2025
Meets:Wednesdays, September 17 - December 10, 2025, 10 a.m. to 12 noon
Location:The Carnegie
Cost: $0.00

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Movies in the 1940s took a sudden shift from frothy musicals and screwball comedies to films noir, politics, and even apocryphal warnings. Once the war ended, and with the death of FDR, there was another shift, motivated by the House on Un-American Activities Committee, the Red Scare, and the Bomb. During the course of this semester, we will study the 1940s zeitgeist through clips from such landmark 1940s films asThe Great Dictator, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Going My Way, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and The Third Man, among others.
Fee: $0.00
Hours:24.00

The Carnegie

10100 Washingtonian Blvd.
Gaithersburg, MD 20878

Stan Levin

Stan Levin has a degree in Film and Theatre from New York University. He also studied theater at the graduate level at the Catholic University of America. He was a documentary film maker for the US Department of Agriculture and an award-winning writer of radio and TV commercials. He was a nationally syndicated film critic, and is a frequent lecturer on film and contemporary culture in the DC Metro area.


 
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09/17/2025Wednesday10 AM to 12 N The Carnegie
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