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Dialectic of prostitution as lived experience, and as socio-cultural metaphor. Focus on literary and cinematic texts, together with relevant theoretical works. The figure of the prostitute will be used to interrogate assumptions about gender identity, commodity value, and national discourse. Transnational traffic in women will provide context for examination of discourses of national identity in China and beyond, together with the fissures at the heart of those same discourses. Instructor: Rojas
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Inquiry into sources of "resonance" in international cinema with emphasis on films from Asia and the Middle East. The object of the course is to attempt a description of aspects of film construction which conduce to intense experience for viewers. Readings in indigenous aesthetics. Instructor: Khanna
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The historical development of the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The emergence of nation-states in the region following World War I. Instructor: Y. Miller
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Literary and cinematic representations of vampirism, from Dracula to Buffy, Chinese jiangshi to the politics of blood-selling and blood donation. The figure of the vampire as embodiment of anxieties about sexuality, desire, gender identity, and ethnic alterity. Cross-cultural circulation of vampiric traditions, vampirism as a symbol of circulation in its own right. Instructor: Rojas
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Examination, through visual and literary texts, of the way in which girlhood, girl culture, and girl bodies have figured in the construction of gender, nation, and consumer culture in modern to contemporary Japan. Instructor: Yoda
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Japan from earliest settlement to 1868; the Heian Court, rise of the samurai, feudal society and culture, the Tokugawa age, and the Meiji Restoration. Instructor: Staff
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A survey of modern Japanese history from 1850 to the present. Emphasis on social change as experienced by ordinary people. Includes a comparative overview of Japan's experience of modernity. This class is not open to students who have taken History 122A. Instructor: Staff
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Surveys representations of the Jewish Holocaust in World Cinema Explores different filmic strategies employed to represent what is commonly deemed as ¿beyond representation¿ Examines the heated debate spurred by a number of Holocaust films. Asks whether anything is permissible in representing such an event: Is there an appropriate way, in contradistinction to inappropriate way, to represent the Jewish Holocaust? Instructor: Ginsburg
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Variable topics on Korean culture from global perspectives. Colonialism, occupation, national division, wars, hyper-development, gendered/ethnic conflicts, global displacements, (post)modernity. Literature, film, pop-culture, history, testimonies, and other forms of representations. Topics framed in local, regional, and global contexts. Instructor: Kwon
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Examination of Arab worldviews (including cultural variations, artistic expressions, view about gender, and religion, and perspectives toward the U.S.). Explores the development of images of the Arab and seeks to understand them in the context of the Arab world as well as in its relationship to the West. Analyzes the dynamics between norms of modern civil society and those dictated by religious traditions. Critically examines current Western assumptions, representations and understanding of Arab societies, and the moral frameworks in which different choices are debated in the Arab context. Instructor: Lo
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