SST 295-07 - Special Topic: Race, Cinema and the National Imaginary

4 credits (Fall)

Cross-listed as: HUM 295-02. This course examines how race has been constructed through the medium of film and cinema’s myth making abilities for over a century, from Birth of a Nation (1915) to Selma (2014). Students will learn close, textual analysis of films and gain the ability to argue the ideological function of cinema in American race politics.

Prerequisite: None.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Arora