FILM 310 - Film Authorship

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

Topic for 2015/16a: Diasporic Directors: Atom Egoyan, Rithy Panh, Trần Anh Hùng, and Trinh. T. Minh-ha. This course examines the complications of authorship in film through the lens of four diasporic filmmakers: Atom Egoyan, Rithy Panh, Trần Anh Hùng, and Trinh. T. Minh-ha. Using Hamid Naficy’s Accented Cinema (Princeton University Press, 2001) as a central theoretical text, this course explores how these filmmakers navigate questions of home, belonging, loss, and displacement.

Students will be expected to attend screenings, conduct independent research, and keep up with wide variety of readings.

Prerequisites: FILM 210 and FILM 211 .

Note that this class does not replace the major requirement of FILM 392 .

One 2-hour period plus outside screenings.