Politics and Film

6 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) Film is one of the most exciting and complex art forms. This course seeks to enrich students' experience and understanding of movies, to see them as complex cultural creations that embody political and social meanings and not simply as entertainment. Various theoretical approaches to film are examined as well as topics connected to the particular films viewed. Topics may include images of women in film, racial politics, the politics of Hollywood cinema, the slave in film, homosexuality in the movies, and conventions of realism.