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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 22601
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: John Roach Center 247
Online
2020 Core Requirements Met:
Diversity/Soc Just
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Writing to learn
In this course we will pay special attention to issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality, exploring ways in which representations are connected to our understanding of systems of power. In general, we will try and consider the complex constructions of “race” in American film and culture, as well as address the following questions. How has the category of “race” been historically constructed and represented? Whose interests have these constructions served? Why are these dominant representations often so far removed from the “real” way in which people live their lives? How are these representations connected to the ways in which we continue to think about race? How do writers and filmmakers resist dominant representations of race in the present, creating complex and liberating ways to rethink race? Some of the films we will study include Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep (1978), Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), Cherien Dabis’s Amreeka (2009), Aurora Guerrero’s Mosquita y Mari (2012), Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989), Georgina Lightning’s Older Than America (2008), Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates (1920), and Lulu Wang’s The Farewell (2019).
4 Credits