CIN 360 - Seeing Films Politically: Ideology and Film

Institution:

Antioch University-System Administration

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Description:

This course examines the politics and pleasures of cinema, both traditional and experimental, both the products of Hollywood and "foreign" cinema. Through lecture, viewings and dialogue, students examine film as a socio-political apparatus, and the ways in which it not merely reflects but constructs and at times limits our identities. Using a historical approach, the class focuses on representations of "otherness" in the mainstream Hollywood vernacular, specifically through the lens of race, gender and sexual identity. Specific attention is given not only to the coercive nature of these images, but also to the ways in which politics interacts with desire in cinema, ideology inevitably unravels and undermines itself, giving way to something resembling pleasure. Finally, the class examines instances of global cinema with excerpts from radical attempts to create new modes of cinema and new forms of seeing. . FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES DOMAIN

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.antioch.edu

Phone Number:

(937) 769-1372

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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