Credits | 1 |
Restrictions | Instr perm req during Drop/Add |
Pre-Requisites | |
Co-Requisites | FMST-210L |
Core Area | Global Engagements |
Area of Inquiry | Human Thought and Expression |
Liberal Arts Practices |
Explores the production and reception of film in a global context, as well as the various ways individuals and communities around the world create and receive film. Students explore the concept of “national cinema,” the interplay of local aesthetic traditions and transnational industrial and artistic practices, the role of cinema in diasporic communities, and the impact of global capitalism on film production, distribution, and exhibition. Films depicting immigration, exile, the refugee, insider/outsider status, and other modes of geographic movement are explored.