POLITICAL CINEMA

The course is designed to allow the students to experience the multidimensional nature of political films, including their influence on individual, social, national and global levels. The goal of the course is to engage students in a deeper critical evaluation of select films in order to gain a broader understanding of the role cinematic art plays in enhancing our understanding of the world around us. The students will be given analytical and theoretical tools with which to critically evaluate the motion pictures and the intentions of their creators, directors, and writers. As a creative art form the film gives us an opportunity to whiteness and experience familiar and unknown life situations though different interpretive lens. The students will be given an opportunity to convey their own political messages in short films of their making.