FMST 316/AA (Winter 2025): FILM & MOVING IMAGE CULTURES
This course explores the ever-shifting relationship between media structures/practices and political struggles. We will study a wide range of film and moving image cultures spanning across diverse genres, time periods and cultural contexts, all of which challenge the traditional notions of cinematic production, distribution, viewership, and subjectivity. From revolutionary documentaries to experimental video art, we will examine how emergence of new modes of media production and circulation has been the direct result of channeling lived experiences, enduring challenging socio-economic upheavals, and a means to grapple with sociopolitical movements. We will also examine how experimental and politically-engaged media is mobilized as a tool for resistance, activism, and social change, and to create cinematic solidarities by other means.
- Teacher: FARAH ATOUI
- Teaching Assistant: Colin Crawford