AMST 382
Transnational Asian/American Film and Video
Spring 2018
Division II
Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed
COMP 382 / ENGL 385
This is not the current course catalog
Class Details
In this course, we will examine transnational Asian/American film and video through the frameworks of film and visual studies, cultural studies, and critical media literacy. We will traverse communal, national, and transnational lines with a heterogeneity of forms and genres, including narrative, documentary, experimental, short film, music video, public access television, and YouTube. We will attend to multiple modes of critical analysis: (1) the conditions of power and visibility being mediated by sites of representation, (2) the networks and platforms helping to make these sites possible, and (3) the materials, meanings, and acts being generated by them. We will also interrogate: How are Asian, American, and/or Asian American representation being produced, performed, embodied, circulated, and consumed? What are the social, political, economic, and cultural forces at play in a given historical context? What artistic and political strategies are at play in the complex nexus of producers, directors, actors, distributors, and viewers? And what are the possibilities, limits, and stakes for different strategies of invention and intervention, activism and resistance? We will consider films from the United States as well as the inter-Asian context. Students will produce a creative media project at the end of the semester.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 3970
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 3970
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
attendance and participation; weekly online journal entries (1-2 pages); midterm paper (5-7 pages); final creative project
Extra Info:
may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites:
none
Enrollment Preferences:
American Studies majors
Distributions:
Division II
Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes:
meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under AMST; meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under COMP or ENGL
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
AMST 382 Division II COMP 382 Division I ENGL 385 Division I
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
AMST 382 Division II COMP 382 Division I ENGL 385 Division I
Attributes:
AMST Comp Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora
AMST Critical and Cultural Theory Electives
AMST Critical and Cultural Theory Electives
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AMST 382 - 01 (S) SEM Asian/American Film and Video
AMST 382 - 01 (S) SEM Asian/American Film and VideoDivision II Exploring Diversity InitiativeTR 8:30 am - 9:45 am
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