Women in Film: World Cultures

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This course is designed to help students understand and compare the lives of contemporary women from different parts of the world as shown in film depictions. The course will expose students to social and cultural contexts through identifying a variety of community and family issues related to the lives of women in and from all around the world. Even in our modern era, with all the gains that have been made, women still grapple with a range of issues relating to historical, ethnographic, and cultural contexts. They are likewise engaged in multiple struggles for resistance and survival, seeking to transform their roles within both modern and traditional societies. The course will examine women’s diverse places and roles in a range of regions and cultures, focusing on their everyday lives, enmeshed in webs of power, as depicted in film, so as to enrich students’ understandings of women’s lives within the wide variety of world societies. Offered once a year.