Global Bollywood. 3 credits. (Same as AMS 455)

Catalog description

This course will use Bollywood, or global popular Indian cinema, as a cultural and political lens to understand the "uncomfortable realities of the world" including poverty, capitalism, gender hierarchies, and religious conflict. Drawing on interdisciplinary frameworks of social and cultural studies, film studies, postcolonial and diaspora theory, and gender and race studies, students will explore the politics of globalized production and reception of culture, global connections that bridge differences, and intersections between American racial formations and postcolonial hierarchies. P: Critical Issues in Human Inquiry course, Contemporary Composition course.