COML 211 - Topics in Indian Film

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University of Pennsylvania

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Majithia. This is a topics course. The topic may be "Global Fiction and Film.". The spread of globalization or the acceleration of transportation and information technologies, alters our notions of time and space. described variously as colonial, postcolonia and global recent film and literature from South Asia suggest models for understanding the following process: imperialism, nationalism, displacement, hybridity, migrancy and travel. the resulting increase in the traffic in texts re defines genres, canons, high/low cultures as well as popular and mass culture. The new reprentationas and circulations of fictions, films and adaptations produce novel ways of thinking about community, borders and belonging. while the class will focus on South Asian texts, we will draw on film, literature and theretical frameworks from other contexts to consider the licenses and limits of comparison for this study.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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