Cinema, State Violence and the Global

Theoretical and political conceptions of state violence and global violence, posed against the history of cinema as representational apparatus, textuality and institution. Attention to the establishment of film as a global medium through World War I, and current work around textual norms and strategies for configuring violence, "global media culture," etc. Readings from sociopolitical theorists (e.g. Weber, Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt, Fanon, Agamben, Foucault, Hardt and Negri) and cinema/media scholars (e.g. Virillio, Prince, L. Williams, Oppenheimer, Koch, etc.). This course is for Graduates only. Upperclass undergraduates require instructor's permission.