AMES 5920 is also offered in Spring 2024
AMES 5920 is also offered in Fall 2023
Spring 2024 | AMES 5920 Section 001: Topics in Asian Culture -- Cinema and the Nonhuman (67277)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- 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 8920 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 116
- Enrollment Status:
Open (1 of 17 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics specified in Class Schedule.
- Class Notes:
- In spite of being a fundamentally post-human medium right from its inception, cinema and its history have centered upon human protagonists, stories, and concerns. It has become a matter of utmost urgency to launch a foundational epistemic revision of not only how we understand cinema's human-dominated history but also the way cinema is watched from an exclusively anthropocentric perspective. As the idea of Enlightenment humanism has faced severe criticism and challenge, understandably so, from various theoretical, political, and ideological positions, cinema studies too have become aware of the problem of monohumanism that has remained its primary ideological underpinning. Accordingly, several film scholars and historians have started acknowledging the specter of the nonhuman that has been haunting the presence of the cinema for long. The primary goal of this seminar is to make kinship with those ghosts and destabilize human subjectivity and consciousness cinematically. We will take up the ontological marker "nonhuman" broadly to include nature/environment/element, nonhuman animals, and object-matter to discuss and learn how a fundamental entanglement/miscegenation provokes us to be attentive to contrapuntal aesthetic in cinema. Readings will include Andre Bazin, Jean Epstein, Deleuze, Tim Ingold, Anat Pick, Donna Haraway, and John Peters among others. The final screening list will be decided after a discussion with seminar participants.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67277/1243
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