MLCS 299
Special Topics
Winter 2023
Topics
- Critical refugee studies
- Forced migration
- Refugee literature and media
- Historical and contemporary displacement
Readings
- Fire at Sea. Directed by Gianfranco Rosi, 2016. Film.
- Limbo. Directed by Ben Sharrock, 2020. Film.
- Human Flow. Directed by Ai Weiwei, 2017. Film.
- Children of Men. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, 2006. Film.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena, et al., editors. The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Oxford University Press, 2014.
- El Akkad, Omar. What Strange Paradise. 1st edition. Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak. By the Sea. New Press, 2001.
- Boochani, Behrouz, et al. No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison. Anansi International/House of Anansi Press, 2019.
- Lanchester, John. The Wall. W. W. Norton, 2019.
Fall 2018 · Topics in Popular Culture / Special Topics
Topics
- Fashion in literature, film, and photography
- Consumption
- Globalization
- Gender and identity
Readings
- P. Antonelli and M. Fisher. Items: Is Fashion Modern? MoMA, 2017.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MLCS 299 A2: Fashion/Text/Film/Photography ↗2016
- MLCS 299 A1- Fashion/Text/Film/Photography ↗2018
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- MLCS 299 B3 Refugee in Literature and Media.pdf ↗2023
- MLCS 299 A1: Folklore and Film ↗2015
- MLCS 299 A2: Graffiti ↗2015
- MLCS 299 A1: Folklore and Film ↗2016
- MLCS 299 A1- Folklore and Film ↗2017
- MLCS 299 A2- Euromaidan: Origins & Aftermath ↗2017
- MLCS 299 A3- Grafitti ↗2017
- MLCS 299 A2- Folklore and Film ↗2018
- MLCS 299 A1 - Story lab: Producing Narrative ↗2019
- MLCS 299 800 Language Conflicts & Identity ↗2021
- MLCS 299 A1 - On the Road: Tourism & Travel Culture ↗2018
- MLCS 299 B2: The Wall Street Occupier's Guide to Cinema ↗2016
- MLCS 299 B3: Folklore and Animation ↗2016
- MLCS 299 B1: Transcultural Sherlock Holmes ↗2017
- MLCS 299 B1- Comedy Across Cultures ↗2018
- MLCS 299 B1 - Language Conflicts & Identity ↗2020
- MLCS 299 B2 - Fictional Languages in Sci Fi ↗2020
- MLCS 299 B3 - Instagram Culture ↗2021
- MLCS 299 B2 - Close Reading in Translation ↗2021
- Main listed text extracted; syllabus also provides a selected bibliography.