AMES 3756 is also offered in Spring 2025
AMES 3756 is also offered in Spring 2024
AMES 3756 is also offered in Spring 2023
AMES 3756 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2025 | AMES 3756 Section 001: Southeast Asian Cinema (53995)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course examines the social life and political functions of cinema in Southeast Asia in relation to various contexts in which cinema emerged and circulate. The course is attentive to the impact of historical processes on cinema as well as to how film and media process historical events - colonialism, militarism, religious conflict, ideological wars, economic turmoil. The course is guided by three different problematics: the arrival of cinema as an imported technology that coincided with and was arguably contingent upon the European colonial presence in the region; the ideological conflicts of the Cold War, anti-Communist sentiments; and the emergence of national film industries vis-à-vis independent cinema in the contemporary time. The latter sees cinema as a recuperative means, on the one hand, from political trauma and, on the other hand, from the ongoing human rights crises and the decline of democracy in the region.
- Class Description:
This course examines the social life and political functions of cinema in Southeast Asia in relation to various contexts in which cinema emerged and circulate. The course is attentive to the impact of historical processes on cinema as well as to how film and media process historical events - colonialism, militarism, religious conflict, border dispute, ideological wars, economic turmoil. The course is guided by three different problematics: the arrival of cinema as an imported technology that coincided with and was arguably contingent upon the European colonial presence in the region; the Cold War, the Americanization of popular media and anti-Communist sentiments; and the emergence of national film industries vis-Ã -vis independent cinema in the present time. The latter sees cinema as a recuperative means, on the one hand, from political trauma as a result of violent suppressive regimes, and on the other hand, from the ongoing human rights crises and the decline of democracy in the region.
Feature-length filmography includes works from Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and East Timor. A couple short films are from Brunei.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53995/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 16 November 2022
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