Symposium: Issues in RTVF (398-0-22)

Topic

Cinemas of Global Solidarity

Instructors

Lakshmi Padmanabhan

Meeting Info

Annie May Swift Hall 219: Tues 3:00PM - 5:50PM

Overview of class

This seminar surveys a range of transnational cinematic practices of politically committed filmmaking, focusing on the global emergence of revolutionary thought and political action through filmmaking in the mid-20th century. This course will provide students an introduction to key films and filmmakers operating outside formal institutions of the film industry and their interventions in the history of film and a their theories of political aesthetics. Topics we will cover will include anticolonial aesthetics in African cinema, the rise and spread of Third Cinema practices in Latin America, the aesthetics of protest in globalized Asia, and the practices of solidarity in an age of digital media.

Class Materials (Required)

All readings will be available on Canvas.

Class Attributes

SoC Additional Distro