Department of English
Black Cinemas, Methods, and Issues
ENGL 570.401
also offered as: CINE 530, ARTH 503, COML 529, AFRC 526
instructor(s):
Mondays 5-8:00 pm
Film aesthetics and intellectual history of cinemas in the African diaspora.
Shifting views on race/racism and gender/sex/sexism within the overall
context of the Hollywood industry, American independent/experimental
filmmaking practices and African Diaspora aesthetics. African American
cinema as a case of cross-cultural contact, complicity, and creativity.
Issues of stereotypes, authorship, and performance. Shared problematics and
passions between African American film and literature.
fulfills requirements
Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major
Sector 4: Literature of the long 18th-century (ca. 1660-1830) of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
last updated: May 13, 2015 - 2:33pm