Looking at such popular English language films as Titanic, The Piano, Reds, Cold Mountain, Gone with the Wind, and others, this course explores images of romantic love set against the background of often turbulent political times. Using Homer's The Illiad and The Oddysey and Dante's The Divine Comedy as a classical and medieval frame, respectively, for romantic love in a "dangerous time," and the writings of Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Carl Kerenyi, Luce Irigary, and others, the course explores the relationships amoung romantic love, spiritual transformation, individuation and cultural and political evolution.