Symposium: Issues in RTVF (398-0-23)
Topic
Film, Media, & Liberation Movements
Instructors
Michael Anthony Turcios
Meeting Info
Locy Hall 303: Tues, Thurs 11:00AM - 12:20PM
Overview of class
Examine how filmmakers, writers, artists, and marginalized communities use film and media to form communities; reimagine feminist justice; forge anticolonial revolutions; and create spaces for healing against abuse and oppression.
Engage with histories, theories, and experiences to analyze how diverse media such as audio, literature, photography, and social media platforms such as TikTok redefine liberation across space and time.
Identify how historical events such as, but not limited to, Indigenous insurgency, Black freedom, displacement of migrants and refugees, and women's rights and reproductive justice allow us to rethink liberation movements. We will screen films such as The Black Power Mixtapes, The Battle of Algiers, and Leila and the Wolves.
Learning Objectives
Identify and describe narrative, aesthetic, and technical elements of film and media that address liberation across historical, spatial, and cultural contexts.
Synthesize concepts related to liberation by drawing on contemporary examples.
Collaborate and develop a small-scale project on cinema, liberation, and underrepresented histories.
Teaching Method
Lectures, seminar structure for discussion, and film screenings programmed in class.
Evaluation Method
A small-scale digital project; A research paper or a rigorous creative project; one presentation on a reading; and one presentation on a film.
Class Materials (Required)
No additional expenses for course materials.