Latinx Film and Media

Catalog description

This course surveys Latinx film and media to expand knowledge and understandings of the historical and contemporary film and media by Latinx people in the United States. The course will explore feature films, documentaries, TV episodes, and music videos (made by or about Latinos/as/x) to provide a holistic introduction to film and cultural Studies. Topics for study may include the representation of NYC as a Caribbean, Latinx, Afro-diasporic city. They may also expand the scope of critical inquiry by looking at the lives, struggles, and joys of Mexican and Central American migrants in the Mexico/US borderlands, the Southwest, and Chicago. By examining these audiovisual narratives and themes influential to major Latinx communities, students will be able to analyze and articulate issues of (neo) colonialism, gender, sexuality, race, social class,migration, urban life, and access to citizenship, resources, and institutions.