COM435L - Race and Ethnicity in Film

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
An investigation of the representation of race and difference in cinema. The course focuses on analyzing how racism is articulated in Hollywood films and also considers the question of difference in the cinema of other selected countries. Methods of resistance and subversion will be explored and assessed. Students will examine depictions of race and ethnicity in film from such perspectives as historical, psychoanalytic, semiotic, feminist, cultural, and ideological. This course fulfills a requirement for the African Diaspora Studies Minor and the Cinema Studies Minor.

Offered When: Offered as and when necessary.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing