Course details

Name: ENFL - 370

Title: CLASS RACE ETHNICITY IN FILM

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2018

Credits: 3

Description:
This course surveys the strategies used by contemporary European and American filmmakers to represent immigration issues. Students will be asked to analyze the narrational style, narrative structure, mise-en-scene, mechanisms of identification and looking relations deployed in a variety of films made since 1980. Readings, lectures and discussions will address the following questions: How do contemporary film narratives position the viewer in relation to immigrant characters and issues? To what extent do they implicate the viewer in the mistreatment and misrepresentation of immigrants? How can film language be used to intervene in contemporary debates about immigration?

Last updated on 2018-03-29 By Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)

Schedule: Wednesday From 5:30 pm To 8:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Film)
• Ethnic Studies (3b)

Teaching Faculty: Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)

Is course canceled: No