US Civil Rights in Art and Media

4 credits

Examination of the role of art and media in the civil rights movement in the U.S. Course explores the work of artists, filmmakers, and activists who critically intervened in social and political history in the postwar period. Examines mass media and telecommunication’s representation of political dissent—cross-cultural and ethnic exchange—across narrative cinema, televisual reportage, and exhibitionary practice. Attention on aesthetic and political documents, imagery, and methods which persist to present day. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.