Section Info: ENGL-334BG-01

Course Title: Asian American Film and Visual Culture: 'Beyond Geishas and Kung Fu Masters'
Start Date: 01/21/2020 End Date: 05/05/2020
Term: Spring Semester 2020
Description: This course examines contemporary Asian American film and visual culture through the lens of cultural recovery, self-invention, and experimentation. Focusing primarily on film and photography, we will explore issues of race and visuality, Hollywood orientalism, memory and postmemory, and racial impersonation and parody. Students will engage with a variety of theoretical and critical approaches. Artists may include Nikki S. Lee, Margaret Cho, Tseng Kwong Chi, Jin-me Yoon, Justin Lin, Binh Dahn, Richard Fung, Mira Nair, Deepa Mehta, and Alice Wu.
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , SI - Speaking-Intensive , TP - Topics Course
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Iyko Day   413-538-3222   iday@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
01/21/2020 - 05/05/2020   Seminar   Tuesday   01:30PM - 04:20PM   SHTK - Shattuck Hall   318   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
Prereq: 8 credits in English or Film, Media, Theater. Take previously   Required  

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Additional Comments        
Course Tags        
ASIAN0001   ASIAN: Asian Studies minor   This course has been approved to count towards the Asian Studies minor.  
CST0001   CSTH: Critical Social Thought major   This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor.  
CST0001   CSTH: Critical Social Thought minor   This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor.  

Cross-listed Sections        
ENGL-334BG-01 Beyond Geishas and Kung Fu  
CST-349BG-01 Beyond Geishas and Kung Fu  

Course Availability
Section status: Open     Capacity: 18     Enrollment: 14     Available: 4     Waitlist: 0

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

Additional Book Comments        
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.