Media and Screen Studies
MSCR 1100: Film 101
Lecture - 4 credits
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- Focuses on the ways in which cinematic language and representations have developed since the late-nineteenth century, how representations of human difference vary in distinct cultural contexts, and how particular filmmakers and historical/national movements have challenged certain representations and ideologies.
- This range of representations and discourses includes blackface performance and other racist tropes, ethnographic studies of indigenous people as “exotic” curiosities, films noir that demonize independent women, postwar Italian neorealism's revolutionary focus on the plight of the poor, films by and about marginalized ethnicities in the U.
- S. and the global south, banned films that highlight the condition of women in post-revolution Iran, and contemporary Hollywood's treatment of homosexuality and masculinity.
Focuses on the ways in which cinematic language and representations have developed since the late-nineteenth century, how representations of human difference vary in distinct cultural contexts, and how particular filmmakers and historical/national movements have challenged certain representations and ideologies. Show more.