Postcolonial Cinemas

This course will critically examine films in countries and contexts whose cultural references are defined by colonial and anticolonial histories. The films will be looked at as modes of signifying and representing national, ethnic, class, racial, gender and sexual discourses. It will also study how films textually negotiate conditions of being, belonging and becoming for various identities caught in trajectories of domination and subordination. We will pay close attention to the relationships between cinemas as locations of spectating and venues for developing desires and fantasies of cultural selfhood, and will use the films and their contexts to trace colonial territories and postcolonial desire for their alternatives. We will also explore how such issues as decolonization, nationalism and pan-nationalisms, ethnicity and class, gender and sexuality are used to suggest representations of subjectivity. We will use web technology as a learning resource to interpret and create visual texts analyzing the subject.

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