Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0202 - Hollywood Film, Diversity
Fall
2014
1
4.00
Demetria Shabazz
02:00PM-03:20PM T,TH
Hampshire College
315928
Franklin Patterson Hall WLH
drsHA@hampshire.edu
This course looks closely at the role of storytelling in our culture as a means of instilling values and influencing identity formation within society. Adaptation itself can be described as a genre that seeks expression in many different disciplines that is interwoven into historical and contemporary texts adaptations are represented in a variety of ways through novels, short stories, plays, nonfiction, music, animation, but also as documentary and video games. The course guides students in an examination of specific relationships between adapted filmic-representational strategies, reception practices, and modes of subjectivity such as sex, race, and class status within the context of the genre. Over the goal of the course is to teach students to "read" or critically interpret the production and circulation of meaning in cinema, and popular culture and introduce strategies for understanding how attitudes and beliefs contribute to ideological formations in society. In this course, students are expected to spend three to four hours weekly on preparation and work outside of class time.
Culture, Humanities, and Languages Writing and Research Multiple Cultural Perspectives Independent Work In this course, students are expected to spend thee to four hours weekly on preparation and work outside of class time.