SST 295-08 - Special Topic: Race, Cinema, and the National Imaginary

4 credits (Spring)

Cross-listed as: HUM 295-04. 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.
Instructor: Arora