Cinematic Asias: Genre, Gender, Community

4 credits · Undergraduate

This course introduces to the study of various genres of South, Southeast, and East Asian cinema, such as auteur, fantasy, kitsch, political, and indie. This will invite rethinking the individual’s place in gendered, sexualized, hyper-urbanized, conflicted, and often violent postcolonial worlds. The course will include readings drawn from critical film theory, postcolonial film criticism, psychoanalysis, and new media.