Academic Calendar - 2024

Western University Academic Calendar. - 2024
Western Main Campus

Film Studies 3363F/G

SCREENING RACE


This course examines how race is inscribed in cinema and intersects with local and global networks of power and resistance. Topics might include: race and representation, the colonial stereotype and Orientalism, racial passing and masquerade, Black independent cinema, Afrofuturism, Blaxploitation, racial hybridity and post-race discourses.

Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 1020E or Film Studies 1022, or 1.0 of English 1000-1999 plus English 2112F/G, Film 2212F/G, or Theatre Studies 2212F/G, or permission of the department.

Extra Information: 2 lecture/seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening.

Course Weight: 0.50
Breadth: CATEGORY B i  
Subject Code: FILM

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