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46586
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Lecture-Discussion
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CJ
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9:30AM
-11:20AM
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TR
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147 Armory
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Jenkins, C
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- Availability:
- Open
- Part of Term:
- 1
- Date Range:
- 08/24/26-12/09/26
- Section Title:
- Contemporary Black Film
- Section Info:
- FA26 - ENGL + MACS 373 / AFRO 398 - Special Topics in Film Studies - Candice Jenkins - Contemporary Black Film - From Moonlight to Get Out to Sinners, Black filmmakers have offered us some of this century’s most popular and critically acclaimed cinematic works. In this course we will consider selected Black films of the 21st century, seeking to understand how Black directors have used the visual medium to shape our collective sense of Black life—past, present, and future. We will view works by filmmakers including Ryan Coogler, Ava DuVernay, Barry Jenkins, Cord Jefferson, Spike Lee, Steve McQueen, Jordan Peele, Dee Rees, Boots Riley, and Gina Prince-Bythewood, spanning genres from historical realism to surrealism to horror, and from thriller to biopic to bildungsroman. Typically, we will view a film during the first class session of the week and discuss it in the second session. We will also read an assortment of interdisciplinary, critical scholarship from Black studies, offering historical and cultural context for these works. Attendance and active participation, group podcast, in-class writing, final paper.
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