Third Cinema

LIT 613S

Exploration of the geopolitics of situatedness and distance as they refer to the film industry, investigating processes of production, distribution, and reception of Hollywood, Third World, and diasporic films, and studying classical and artisanal modes of production in film. Addresses questions of authorship and embodiment; human rights and interventionist filmmaking as they refer themselves to human states of liminality, global movements of populations and capital. Traces the experience of globalization, urbanization, alienation, violence, nostalgia for nature and homeland as represented in the filmic image.
Curriculum Codes
  • CCI
  • EI
  • STS
  • ALP
  • SS
Cross-Listed As
  • AAAS 530S
  • CINE 644S
  • ICS 613S
  • LATAMER 613S
  • VMS 611S
Typically Offered
Occasionally