MACS 300

Spring 2021

Part of Term 1
Jan 25-May 5
Topics in Film and History
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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as HIST 300. See HIST 300.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
58801
Lecture-Discussion
A
11:00AM -12:50PM
TR
Lincoln Hall
Steinberg, M
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/25/21-05/05/21
Section Info:
Topic: Film and Revolution: From "Do the Right Thing" to "Battleship Potemkin" Description: This course explores how filmmakers and actors, across a century of cinema, have portrayed, often in revolutionary ways, revolutions and revolutionaries. Locations range from the streets of Brooklyn to colonial North Africa. Topics include race, gender, sexuality, power, inequality, oppression, violence, resistance, and morality. Unconventionally, the course works backward in time. We will read historical sources that complement the films. We will consider the relationship between cinematic and historical storytelling and what revolution means—as a historical event, as a human experience, and as a form in art. If the Covid situation allows, we will watch films together in person, to share the collective experience of cinema. Synchronous on-line (Zoom) discussions of the films will follow on Thursdays.
58802
Online
B
12:00PM -2:50PM
M
n.a.
Cha-Jua, S
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/25/21-05/05/21
Section Info:
Topic: Representations African Americans in Film Description: Film and the African American Experience explores the conflicting presentation of the Black image, male and female, by white and Black filmmakers and the interpretation of those images by critics and activists. We begin with African Americans’ initial appearance in U.S. Films, explore counter filmic images created during the Harlem Renaissance, and critically assess the “coon” and race films of the 1940s, the “racial liberal films” of the 1950s-60s, Blaxploitation, the Black cinema movement of the 1970s-80s, especially the Los Angeles School, and Spike Lee, including the “hood” films, as well contemporary features.
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