Course Description
Summary
How does cinema make the world? We will explore the landscapes and political potentials of different cinematic movements such as the LA Rebellion, Cinema Novo, New Queer Cinema, Taiwanese New Wave, and New German Cinema as well as cinematic practices in colonial Bollywood and 1920s Shanghai. This course will rely heavily on weekly film screenings, supplementary readings, and weekly written responses culminating in a final paper or creative project. We will look at cinema not as a history of film objects but as a constellation of cine-ecologies (energy, practices, matter) in conversation with each other.
