Imaging Africa

Catalog description

This course explores the issues of race as it relates to Africa and the African Diaspora. We will examine the construction of African Images in fiction and nonfiction films. Our goal is to improve our ability to analyze how filmmakers portray important social questions. Furthermore, we will discuss the relationships between the formulation of dominant culture media art and the emergence and transformation of Post-Colonial conceptualizations and Third Cinema. Students will be assessed through class participation/attendance, exams, reports, journals, and a final project.