OSUN Theme: Arts and Society
Cinema and Human Rights
Term: January 31, 2025 – May 16, 2025Level: 300-Level
Day/Time: Friday 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Instructor: Sabine El Chamaa, Bard College
This course explores the intersection between human rights and cinema through films directed by pioneering filmmakers. Students will acquire the analytical tools to read film as text through an interdisciplinary lens, drawing from readings in film and queer studies, and post-colonial discourses. The historical (and current) role of film in provoking social change is questioned, problematizing the cultural notions of human rights while questioning the ideologies in the politics of representation.
Credits: 4 US / 8 ECTS