Modern origins of experimentation in film and literature in avant-garde schools such as Expressionism and Surrealism, with contemporary results of this heritage. Whether film is the most modern of the media, the results of two obsessive concerns: 1) the poetic, dreamlike, and fantastic, 2) the factual, realistic, and socially critical or anarchic. (Gen.Ed. AT)

Modern origins of experimentation in film and literature in avant-garde schools such as Expressionism and Surrealism, with contemporary results of this heritage. Whether film is the most modern of the media, the results of two obsessive concerns: 1) the poetic, dreamlike, and fantastic, 2) the factual, realistic, and socially critical or anarchic. (Gen.Ed. AT)

Modern origins of experimentation in film and literature in avant-garde schools such as Expressionism and Surrealism, with contemporary results of this heritage. Whether film is the most modern of the media, the results of two obsessive concerns: 1) the poetic, dreamlike, and fantastic, 2) the factual, realistic, and socially critical or anarchic. (Gen.Ed. AT)

Modern origins of experimentation in film and literature in avant-garde schools such as Expressionism and Surrealism, with contemporary results of this heritage. Whether film is the most modern of the media, the results of two obsessive concerns: 1) the poetic, dreamlike, and fantastic, 2) the factual, realistic, and socially critical or anarchic. (Gen.Ed. AT)

This course will introduce you to recent works by writers and filmmakers from Senegal, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Algeria and Nigeria. Throughout the semester, we will explore the diverse ways in which African writers from across the continent address the major challenges of the 21st century: ethnic conflict, political corruption, the colonial legacy, modernity, nationalism, globalism, economic disparity, religious fundamentalism, and terrorism.

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