African American Film. (3-0) 3 Credit Hours

Catalog description

This course offers an exploration of films by and about African Americans in conversation with broader African American history, culture, and the politics of the Black experience. Central to this discussion are the ways cinematic representations have helped shape understandings of race and Blackness in the U.S. as they overlap with those of class, gender, and sexuality and how African American filmmakers have used cinema to write their own complex stories of Black life into history. (Same as FMS 3383 . Credit cannot be earned for both FMS 3383 and AAS 3033 .).