CWL 581

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Seminar Lit Themes

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Credit: 4 hours.

Study of a theme or type (the Faust myth, the romantic hero, etc.) to discover its essential components in all the literatures studied and the significance of national variations. The subject of the seminar varies each term.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours if topics vary.

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	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	46015	Lecture-Discussion	RH	3:30PM -5:20PM	T	135 English Building	Harris, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Spectacles of Terror & Theories of Violence Jean Baudrillard has argued that the power of terror lies not merely in the reality of death and destruction, but in the symbolism of slaughter. Bombings, plane hijackings, suicide missions, kidnapping, torture, infiltrations, assassinations have marked out conflict in violent ways often on an international stage. Following 9/11 and The War on Terror, Hollywood reified a heroes/villains formulation. In response Third-Cinema pushed against these stereotypes to challenge the binary representations of perpetrator and victim, with the attendant hero required to save one and destroy the other. Instead, increasingly complex portrayals have emerged that cast terrorists as victims of the situation, and challenge the innocence of victims within the larger arena of global conflicts. From The Battle of Algiers (1966) to Omar (2014) and Bethlehem (2014) this graduate seminar takes a comparative approach to examining cinematic depictions of terrorism. Addressing Ruby Rich's call to approach the study of terrorism and film, through "successive schools of scholarly engagement (postcolonial, multicultural, feminist, postfeminist, multiculturalist, queer, anticolonial, antiracist, Marxist, subaltern poststructuralist, genre-based, Lacanian, semiotic, and structuralist) and close textual readings," this course will consider the connection between real-world catastrophic trauma and our expectations that 'it looks like a movie'.