Section Info: ENGL-334BG-01

Course Title: Asian American Film and Visual Culture: 'Beyond Geishas and Kung Fu Masters'
Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025
Term: Spring Semester 2025
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    
01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025   Seminar   Tuesday   01:30PM - 04:20PM   TBA   TBA   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

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

Comments        
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.  
CRPE0003   CRPE-3: Critical Social Thought - Major Pathway   This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE Critical Social Thought major pathway.  
CRPE0001   CRPE-1: CRPE - Major Pathway/Minor   This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE major pathway and the CRPE minor.  

Cross-listed Sections        
ENGL-334BG-01 Beyond Geishas and Kung Fu  
FMT-330BG-01 Beyond Geishas and Kung Fu  

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 19     Enrollment: 19     Available: 0     Waitlist: 1
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

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