The Visual Culture of Freedom

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Organized around three classics of anticolonial thought by M.K. Gandhi, C.L.R. James, and Frantz Fanon, this course aims to formulate the relationship between visual media and the pursuit of freedom across the globe. We will critically examine various forms of resistance, from insurgency to civil disobedience, from fugitivity to refusal, in the theatre of colonialism. Through visual materials like the monster film, human rights photos, and new wave cinema, we will consider the cultural mechanisms of othering, stereotyping, removal, and exoticization that constitute the history of colonial rule and determine the course of resistance against it.