First Year Seminar: A Century of Egyptian Cinema

3 units

This First-Year-Seminar offers a survey of Egyptian Cinema, from silent film to contemporary productions. In addition to regular film screenings, we will be reading articles in film criticism, as well as in history and fiction. This course is designed to enable students to develop their academic and conceptual tools to critically approach national cinemas. Students should utilize and further advance their knowledge of major historical and theoretical themes in cinema studies, cultural studies, and literary studies and apply them to analyze Egyptian Cinema as a case study. Additionally, this course will function as a window to reflect on political, rand critical themes, such as: colonialism and postcolonialism, modernism and postmodernism, class, gender, identity, nationalism, representation among other questions.