SAMPLE OF FALL COURSES FOR 2014! Intro to “Third World” Cinema (“Middle East” and North Africa: A Cinematic Study) (01:685:230:02, Cross List 01:175:377:05 and 01:013:301:02), Fall 2014 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fakhri Haghani (: [email protected]) CMES, LSH – B304 T 5:00-8:00pm Course Description “Middle East” and North Africa are heterogeneous regions on ethnic, linguistic, religious, cultural, and historic levels. They are made up of different communities, peoples, states, and governments. On an academic level, historical and literary studies of the region’s existing local differences, life styles, and popular cultures have relatively been able to address commonalities and differences across these regions. However, the complexities of the region’s history, cultures, and people represented through visual and in particular cinematic productions as well as perspectives have yet to spark serious examinations in our classroom discussions. By taking this course students develop a critical approach to the understanding of the importance of film in addressing heterogeneous geographical, socio-political, and historical characters of the region based on the development of three major contemporary debates: the discourse of national liberation and identity, the power of popular culture, and the question of gender and women. Students will also explore the relationships between cinema and other forms of popular culture including music, literature, and visual arts. A few cinematic techniques, genres, and currents as well as philosophical and theoretical perspectives in film studies relevant to the themes will be discussed. Students will ultimately examine the use of cinema, both as a text and an aesthetic, creative, and technological means, in telling stories about how art and technology are able not only to reexamine, explore and restore histories, identities, languages, and cultures but also to address social justice and the need for transformative social change. The course includes both class screening and films placed on Library Reserves which students are expected to watch on their own. Students are encouraged to analyze the film as a text in the lights of the assigned readings. Students are expected to regularly attend class sessions (10 Points), to participate in lively weekly discussions on the readings (15 Points), to produce two group projects, one for the midterm (20 Points) and the other for the final (20 Points), to write weekly journals (20 Points) and a final short paper (15 Points). Sample Films: Cairo Station by Youssef Chahine, 1958 Journey to the Sun by Yasmin Ustaoglu, 1999 Divine Intervention by Elia Suleiman, 2002 Ten by Abbas Kiarostami, 2002 Where Do We Go From Here by Nadine Labaki, 2012
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