04:30 PM to 07:10 PM T
Enterprise Hall 275
Section Information for Spring 2014
This course examines globalization, migration, and transfressing in cinema through a variety of theoretical approaches to film studies. We will look at movies featuring characters who cross borders physically and metaphorically (traversing national borders as well as defying gender, class, and ethnic boundaries) and the violence with which both sets of borders are defended. The course will include films that represent bodies that circulate across borders involuntarily--through deportation, kidnapping, enslavement, and human trafficking--the spaces that restrict those bodies (prisons, detention centers, homes), and the ways such bodies are figured threats to national, racial, and financial security. Finally, we consider the border-crossing tendencies of cinema itself, looking at questions of transnational production, genre-mixing, and international distribution. Screenings include: 12 Years a Slave, Paris is Burning, Dirty Pretty Things, Even the Rain, The Whistleblower, Sin Nombre, and Ramchand Pakistani.
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Credits: 3
Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.
Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.
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