Nation, Culture, and Society in South Asian Cinema

9 units · Undergraduate

Intermittent: 9 units This course is ONLY offered at Carnegie Mellon's campus in Qatar. This course uses cinema to explore the portrayal of contemporary South Asia. It traces the development of South Asia through film and highlights the changing images of the region since the 1950s. In addition to outlining the political history of South Asia, themes of nation-building, political culture, corruption, inequality, and social tension based on gender, caste, religion, region, and language, as well as transnational/global South Asian cinema, will be addressed.