Just added to spring 2023 schedule: Global Screen Cultures (ICC Creative Arts, Humanities, Diversity)

By Michael Richardson, November 15, 2022

Just added to spring 2023 schedule: Global Screen Cultures (ICC Creative Arts, Humanities, Diversity)

LNGS/SCRE 11100: Global Screen Cultures (MWF 10:00-10:50)

Michael Richardson, Director, Program in Screen Cultures

Interested in learning more about global cinema and culture? Throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, global events and changing notions of family, class, and nationhood have transformed traditional notions of cultural identity. This course will examine this transformation of identity through an examination of a variety of national cinemas. How has war and political upheaval transformed the individual’s relationship to the state? How has globalization and patterns of immigration altered once homogeneous conceptions of national identity? To what extent have evolving notions of family, marriage, and gender roles impacted social, cultural, and national identities? What role do class and race play? This course will examine these re-figurations of identity both within particular national cultures as well as across various cultures and countries. Weekly film screenings, supplemented by analytical and historical texts will form the basis of this course.

This ICC course (Theme: Identities) carries the Creative Arts and Humanities designation as well as the Diversity designation. Open to all majors, students of all years.