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AMES 5920 is also offered in Fall 2023
Fall 2023 | AMES 5920 Section 001: Topics in Asian Culture -- Global Political Cinema (32169)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Exclude fr or soph 5000 level courses
- Meets With:
- AMES 3920 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (3 of 17 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics specified in Class Schedule.
- Class Notes:
- The central questions animating this course are: What is "political cinema," and "How does it manifest and affect politics?" Thus, the questions are not only about the politics of cinema but also what kind of politics cinema makes possible. We will explore these questions from the historical vantage of those moments when cinema became political or the mediator or instrument for "a politics." This framework prompts us to examine the political ontology of cinema in relation to other media and simultaneously to its material manifestations in the political communities. We are interested in exploring the entanglements between what sort of political moves/movements cinema made or can make, what sort of positions it occupied or could occupy, in its own reflexive relation to its political ontology and its political stance vis-à-vis this relation. Thus, how cinema thinks (politics), how it thinks itself, what it wants us to think and how we think about it will be issues of vital importance to us.
- Class Description:
- The central questions animating this course are: What is "political cinema," and "How does itmanifest and affect politics?" Thus, the questions are not only about the politics of cinema butalso what kind of politics cinema makes possible. We will explore these questions from thehistorical vantage of those moments when cinema became political or the mediator or instrumentfor "a politics." This framework prompts us to examine the political ontology of cinema inrelation to other media and simultaneously to its material manifestations in the politicalcommunities. We are interested in exploring the entanglements between what sort of politicalmoves/movements cinema made or can make, what sort of positions it occupied or could occupy,in its own reflexive relation to its political ontology and its political stance vis-Ã -vis this relation.Thus, how cinema thinks (politics), how it thinks itself, what it wants us to think and how wethink about it will be issues of vital importance to us.Throughout the course of the semester, students are introduced to and are asked to question thepolitical ontology of cinema through which politics of cinema is often claimed and getsmanifested. In this course, we will watch films from and read histories, theories, and manifestoesabout:- African-American Cinema in 1910s and the politics of the possible- The British Malaya Colonial Cinema (now Malaysia/Singapore) in 1920s and the politicsof labor and racialization- Soviet film in the 1920s and the politics of the real- China 1930s and the politics of mobilization- Brazil 1960s and the politics of development- Japan 1960s and the politics of the actual- US-Asia (South Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia) 1970s and the politics of culture- The Philippines 1980s and the politics of time and revival- Nigeria 1990s and the politics of digital and infrastructure- The Middle East 2000s and the politics of displacement.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32169/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 April 2023
Fall 2023 | AMES 5920 Section 003: Topics in Asian Culture -- Worlding Global Literature and Cinema (32482)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Exclude fr or soph 5000 level courses
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Wed 04:00PM - 06:30PMUMTC, East BankFolwell Hall 105
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (6 of 17 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics specified in Class Schedule.
- Class Notes:
- Rather than offering up a corpus of works deemed representative of "world literature" or "world cinema," this course investigates the political, critical, and commercial forces that have recognized regional artworks as worthy of global consumption from the nineteenth century to the present. According to what - and whose - rationale have certain works of literature or cinema been judged suitable for global bookstores, cinemas, and classrooms? Should we be critical of such processes? If so, what alternatives might we develop for engaging with diverse regional literatures and cinemas? These are questions for which scholars have only recently begun formulating answers. We will consider these scholarly proposals by reading relevant critical works. But we will also formulate our own insights and solutions by engaging directly with literary and cinematic works dating from the early modern period to the present. How might Chinese or Arabic novels, Thai art cinema, or a Korean blockbuster resist, subvert, or creatively negotiate worlding's culturally reductive mechanisms? For the sake of coherence, we will focus on how worlding processes have applied to works from (South, Southeast, and East) Asia and the Middle East, but students with expertise or interest in other regions will be welcome to incorporate their insights from other fields into class discussions, presentations, and papers.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32482/1239
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