ANTH 22525 /41025 - South Asian Visual Culture

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University of Chicago

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PQ: Advanced standing and some background in South Asian studies. At a time when economic reforms have produced new social inequalities alongside an efflorescence of middle class consumerist fantasy, South Asian cultural production has witnessed an extraordinary explosion in both creativity and global visibility. But what can we learn today from a close exploration of contemporary South Asian cultural production How do artists, filmmakers, advertisers, and writers envision their work, and how does their work encode dreams of the future and fantasies of the past What are the relevant genealogies by which we might interpret the present This jointly taught class features a range of visiting speakers and a series of engagements with films, exhibitions, quotidian visual materials, and textual fictions. W. T. S. Mazzarella. Not offered 2009 C10; will be offered 201 0 -11.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Multiple

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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