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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
Third World and Postcolonial Cinemas
In film and cultural studies, “third world” and “postcolonial” are related but discontinuous concepts which attempts to characterize and respond to contemporary global condition. These intensely-debated terms have been collocated alongside notions of decolonization, nationalism, multiculturalism, minority discourse, feminism, identity politics and Diaspora, and frequently reveal the tensions of these competing claims. This course critically introduces these conceptual paradigms, considering the meaningfulness of these discourses in unpacking a diverse array of politically-engaged films from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, as well those arising from communities of color, immigrants and minorities in Europe and the United Sates.
Drawing from popular and art films from many national cinemas in the last four decades, the course considers issues of nationalism and postcolonialism, counter-ethnography and globalization