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Tamara Cooper
C LIT 303
Seattle Campus
Introduction to the history and significance of film genres from the early days of film to the present. Examines a selection of several genres, drawn from a list including western, melodrama, musical, thriller, road odyssey, film noir, and documentary. Topics include form, ideology, authority, history, innovation, and parody.
Class description
What is stake in telling and witnessing truth? Struggles for Representation explores socially engaged cinema through the dynamics of social movements in North America and the West. We will ask how disenfranchised populations use visual documents as revolutionary documents, organizing tools to mobilize their agendas, participate in national discourse, or create their own. We will reframe documentary scenes to include still images, installation, self-ethnography and docu-narrative to query the truth imperative of social engagement. What might it mean to create one’s own truth? Struggles for Representation examines the impulse to narrate becoming as a fundamental form of resistance for women, people of color and members of LGBTQ communities.
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Class will run on Tues and Thurs only. Mon is an extra screening day!
