ANTH 3242W is also offered in Spring 2024
ANTH 3242W is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2022 | ANTH 3242W Section 001: Hero, Savage, or Equal? Representations of NonWestern Peoples in the Movies (66142)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 220
- Enrollment Status:
Open (14 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course will explore images of nonWestern peoples and cultures as they have appeared in the movies and in other popular media. It has four aims: l) to introduce the problem of nonWestern peoples in the West from historical points of view, 2) to discuss the relationship between mass media and issue of representation to the marketplace, 3) to introduce the concept of morality in and through collective representations as developed by Durkheim, and 4) to analyze the problem of moral agency in a series of Hollywood and Independent movies which portray nonwestern peoples and cultures. We will watch movies portraying three different groups of cultures, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, and the Japanese. In each unit, we will first read important commentary on Western representations of each of these peoples, such as Bernard Smith on Pacific Islanders and Vine Deloria on images of Native Americans and Gina Marchetti on Hollywood's Japanese.
- Class Description:
- In this class, we will watch whole or excerpts of movies that depict nonWestern peoples from the Pacific, Native America and the Middle East. We will discuss them in terms of a framework that the instructors will introduce from selected readings on mass media and society. The course will be graded on the basis of three essay assignments in which student will be asked to write about the movies and the framework of analysis.
- Grading:
- 100% Reports/Papers
- Class Format:
- 15% Lecture
70% Film/Video
15% Discussion
- Workload:
- 30 Pages Reading Per Week
15-25 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Paper(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66142/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 April 2018
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