Religion, Race, & Relationship in Film

Catalog description

This course will explore themes of religion, race, gender, and relationship to the religious or racial 'other' in films from the silent era to the present and serve as an introduction to the interpretation of film, and to critical race studies for emerging ministers, scholars, and consumers of popular culture. It will consider film as a medium and engage students in analysis and discussion of cinematic images, themes, and tropes, with the goal of developing hermeneutic lenses through which these can be interpreted. The films selected all deal with issues of race, religion, gender, and/or relationship, and ask the ultimate question, 'How should we treat one another?'