WGSS 371
Black Legacies: Feminist Filmmaking, Women Writers, and the Imaginings of Black Experience Spring 2016
Division II
Cross-listed AFR 377
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Award-winning Black feminist author and screenwriter Toni Cade Bambara said, “The role of the artist is to make revolution irresistible.” Feminist Filmmaking, Women Writers, and the Imaginings of Black Experience will explore the ways that Black straight and queer women writers and filmmakers have used the written word and moving image to both document and imagine Black lives. In a society that does not value Black life, these creative interventions are revolutionary acts. This course will examine Black women’s written and cinematic responses to their marginalization in their non-monolithic racial/cultural communities, white lesbian communities, and/or mainstream feminist communities. We will interrogate how Black women writers and filmmakers use their mediums to make visible the impact of the intersections of race, gender, gender identity, and sexuality on their lives. Students will be asked to view the assigned documentary and narrative films closely, placing them in explicit conversation with the concepts and arguments that emerge from the required readings (essays, poetry, interviews, memoir) and interactive classroom discussions. All of this will allow students to explore the craft involved in both writing and filmmaking, while asking questions about some of the particular and often powerful ways that Black women writers and filmmakers use their craft to address ethical questions and issues that affect their daily lives.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 3968
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: 2-3 short papers (5-7 pages), and a final project or final 10-page paper; engaged class participation
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: Africana Studies concentrators
Distributions: Division II
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
WGSS 371 Division II AFR 377 Division II

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