Indian Cinema in the U.s. and Beyond
Explores India's diverse film and media cultures, global resonances of South-Asian-inflected media, and diasporic identity through South Asian American community media.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.72 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Critically examine the representational nuances, ideological underpinnings and political rhetoric underlying South Asian Diaspora media texts.
Examine the aesthetic, contextual and historical framings of media artifacts to understand how it shapes conversations on ethnicity, race and diversity.
Analyze the varying patterns of desire, labor and agential assertions that mark film and media forms and practices to understand how it hinders production and positionality.
Demonstrate how film and media can provide us with conceptual grounds to understand the larger social realities that govern representational politics and media production practices.
Critically examine how postcoloniality has been used as a frame of reference in film and media studies.
Examine how power, identity and representations shape diasporic media and its pursuit of an audience.
Encourage participation in the multi-cultural context by offering ways to engage with media material to understand how past the has shaped present day circumstances, perceptions of, and disparities in race in the U.S.
Recognize and question cultural assumptions, rules, biases, and knowledge claims as they relate to race and ethnicity.
Apply course concepts to their lives outside classroom by demonstrating self-awareness and empathy towards the cultural perspectives and worldviews of others.
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.72 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).
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Topics
- Bollywood and regional Indian film cultures.
- Genre, style, auteurship, ethnicity, decolonization, gender non-conformity, caste, settler colonialism, censorship, and linguistic nationalism.
- Diasporic identity through South Asian American community media.
Skills
- Critically examine representational nuances, ideological underpinnings, and political rhetoric in South Asian Diaspora media texts.
- Examine aesthetic, contextual, and historical framings of media artifacts to understand their impact on conversations about ethnicity, race, and diversity.
- Analyze patterns of desire, labor, and agential assertions in film and media forms and practices to understand hindrances to production and positionality.
- Critically examine the use of postcoloniality as a frame of reference in film and media studies.
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