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 permission of the Department.

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