Film Studies 370 - Tpc: Immigrant Narratives/Film

Spring
2014
01
4.00
David Hernandez
TH 01:15PM-04:05PM
Mount Holyoke College
87238
Kendade 203
dhernand@mtholyoke.edu
87019,87238
'This course offers an interrogation of overt and embedded narratives of migrants and the migration process in popular and documentary film, paying specific attention to cinematic representations of non-citizen bodies confronting migration, deportation, labor, acculturation, and anti-immigrant hysteria. Film screenings and class discussions comprise the interpretative lens through which students will examine the aesthetic, cultural, economic, gendered, historical, political, racial, and sexual dimensions of cultural texts. The course is supplemented with readings about immigration policies and histories.'
This course is open to Juniors and Seniors. Prereq: 8 credits from Film Studies
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.