AMST 205
Chicana/o Film and Video Fall 2018
Division II
Cross-listed LATS 203 / WGSS 203 / ARTH 203
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Hollywood cinema has long been fascinated with the border between the United States and Mexico. This course will examine representations of the U.S.-Mexico border, Mexican Americans, and Chicana/os in both Hollywood film and independent media. We will consider how positions on nationalism, race, gender, identity, migration, and history are represented and negotiated through film. We will begin by analyzing Hollywood “border” and gang films before approaching Chicana/o-produced features, independent narratives, and experimental work. This course will explore issues of film and ideology, genre and representation, nationalist resistance and feminist critiques, queer theory and the performative aspects of identity.Through a focus on Chicana/o representation, the course explores a wide spectrum of film history (from the silent era to the present) and considers numerous genres.
The Class: Format: film screenings will be scheduled as a lab
Limit: 30
Expected: 20
Class#: 1390
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation will be based on one short paper, mid-term exam, final exam and take home essays
Prerequisites: none
Distributions: Division II
Notes: meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under AMST, LATS or WGSS; meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under ARTH
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
LATS 203 Division II WGSS 203 Division II AMST 205 Division II ARTH 203 Division I
Attributes: AMST Arts in Context Electives
AMST Comp Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora
ARTH post-1600 Courses
FMST Core Courses
GBST Borders, Exiles + Diaspora Studies Electives
LATS Core Electives

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