BLKS 225 - Black Cinema: (subtitle)

Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0

This course examines the history of Black Cinema, that is, films made by and about Black people in the United States or within the global African Diaspora. How does Black Cinema address racism, social change, and/or colonialism/post-colonialism in the national or international contexts of America, Africa, or the Caribbeans? We will visualize, study, and analyze a selection of films using scholarly critics in an attempt to develop the critical understanding and interpretation of various Afro-centric settings brought alive, the images, sounds, characters, and stories within their symbolic and cultural context. This course may cover some of the following topics: economic strategies (independent vs. “mainstream” approaches), gender and sexuality, form and aesthetics of the moving image, the politics of representation and self-representation in film and other forms of media, immigration, child-soldier, excision, freedom, traditions vs. modernity, and filmmaking as political practice.

Repeatable: May be taken twice for credit.
Offered: Once a Year