COMM 517.001 History of Cross-Cultural Film/Video
This course on cross-cultural cinema features videos and films from Asia, Africa and Latin America and from post-colonial diasporic communities. The films we will see typically express the tensions of the political, economic and social reality of development and post-colonialism. They grapple with the need to assert not only opposition to something (colonialism, imperialism, economic inequality, Americans, a neocolonial elite) but to construct an autonomous identity.