Advanced Topics Race & Intersectionality in Film.

Catalog description

This course examines the social and material stakes in American cinematic representations of race, gender, and sexuality. Utilizing an intersectional framework that sees these social categories as always defined by one another, we discuss film as an artistic medium that is integral to the construction and contestation of ideas of social difference. In the process, we move beyond debates about positive or negative cinematic representations and instead discuss the ways that the art of film shapes and reflects social structures.