Screenings of the Dark: Topics in Black Feminist Film Theory

Undergraduate / Graduate

This course will address historical and contemporary arcs in the expansive field of Black feminism by centering on representations by and of Black woman on screen. The central pursuit off this course will be to elevate the theories of Black feminism that exist within and outside of film studies to anticipate future ruptures in creative output and emerging epistemologies. The course will center around such topics as performance, refusal, aesthetics, transness, and girlhood.