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 106-098 Colonial/Postcolonial Visual Cultures

Note

Formerly available as 106-456. Students who have completed 106-456 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

4th year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Anne Maxwell

Prerequisites

Usually admission to fourth year Honours see Honours entry

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

A 2-hour seminar per week

Subject Description

Students study exhibitionary and cinematic works which address the subject of racial and cultural difference. Through the study of postcolonial theory and criticism and the workshopping of film sequences they are furnished with a method for critically analysing and interpreting the visual cultures that have helped to both sustain and resist Euro-American imperialisms.

Assessment

Written work totalling 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts

A subject reader will be available.

  • J Dash, Daughters of the Dust.
  • H Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia. Channel Four 1994.
  • Film: Cooper & Schroedsack, King Kong.
  • Film: R Flaherty, Nanook of the North.
  • M Fuentes, Bontoc Eulogy.
  • D W Griffith, Birth of a Nation.
  • J Jarmusch, Dead Man.
  • S Lee, Jungle Fever.
  • T Moffat, Nice Coloured Girls.
  • V Ward, Map of the Human Heart.
  • C Denis, Chocolat.
  • C Chauvel, Uncivilised.
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