Hum 119: Ethnic Visions (2-2-5)
Screenings: Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. in Baxter Lecture Hall
Class meeetings: Tuesdays 6:00 - 7:00 p.m., Baxter Hall, classroom TBD
In recent decades, filmmakers from ethnic minorities often un or misrepresented in mainstream Hollywood films have been making dramatic features depicting the history, problems and prospects of their own communities. This course will feature a selection of such films by directors from African, Latino, Asian, Muslim, and European American ethnic groups, with an eye towards uncovering the similarities and differences in the processes of immigration, acculturation, and Americanization. Several directors will visit the class to discuss their works with the students, including Justin Lin ("Better Luck Tomorrow"), Ramin Serry ("Maryam") and Timothy Bui ("Green Dragon.")
Instructor: Rosenstone
Readings
- 01 African Americans After World War II.pdf
- 01 Black Images in Film.pdf
- 01 Moods Indigo A Long View.pdf
- 01 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.pdf
- 01 The New Black Movie Boom.pdf
- 01 The Rise and Fall of Blaxploitation.pdf
- 02 A Crash Course on Hollywood's Latino Imagery.pdf
- 02 Bordertown, the Assimilation Narrative, and the Chicano Social Problem Film.pdf
- 02 Days of Riot.pdf
- 02 Latino Participation in the Film Industry ,1911-1945.pdf
- 02 Latino Sacrifice in the Discourse of Citizenship.pdf
- 02 Mexican Americans.pdf
- 02 The People v. Zammora et al.pdf
- 02 Zoot Suit.pdf
- 03 Asian Americans.pdf
- 03 In Search of Asian American Cinema (Race in Contemporary American Cinema, part 3).pdf
- 03 The Asian Invasion (of Multiculturalism) in Hollywood.pdf
- 03 The Long March from Wong to Woo Asians in Hollywood.pdf
- 04 Arab Americans.pdf
- 04 Categorizing the Other - Stereotypes and Stereotyping.pdf
- 04 Ethnic and Racial Issues in American Film and Television - Historical Essays and Bibliography.pdf
- 04 Hollywood and the Jew.pdf
- 04 Indecent Exposures.pdf
- 04 Jewish Americans.pdf
- 04 Jews in the Silent Era.pdf
- 04 Not really white - performing Jewish difference.pdf
- 04 The Kaleidoscopic Lens-how Hollywood views ethnic groups.pdf
- 04 Women and Ethnic Minorities in Modern Film.pdf