Module description
This module considers global cinema and media as critical concepts and historical processes. The module seeks to address the compelling presence of global cinema and media and investigate how they produce modes of vision and visibility in the world. Depending on the convener, in this module, students may study global cinema as intersections of industrial, cultural, and aesthetic phenomena, as well as points of critical convergence between gender and sexuality (including LGBTQI+ issues), race and ethnicity, classes, religions, and global politics. The films and other media studied illuminate global phenomena such as political economy, juridical and biopolitical violence, environmental crisis, and art and media markets as these are lived, memorised, politicised, debated, consumed, exploited, and/or addressed. This module will scrutinise the tension and interrelationship between the global, the regional, and the local, and how cinema and media map – and are in turn mapped by – the shifting contours of geopolitical formations, global networks, patterns of migration, and affective mediations. It may also examine political precarity and marginalisation with globalisation, as well as defiance and resistance to it.
Depending on the convener, the precise weighting of the above elements may vary from year to year. For example, the module convener may choose to focus on art cinema, experimental or avant-garde cinema, world cinema, slow cinema, postcolonial cinema, or media dealing with women cinema, queer and trans cinemas, and cinemas that address class, race, ethnicity, or religion.
Assessment details
4000 word essay [100%]