Summer 2023 Full-term
Meeting:
TTh 10:20am - 11:50am / SMI 304
SLN:
14136
Section Type:
Seminar
Instructor:
FILM AND THE POST-APOCALYPTIC
IMAGINATION (A&H, DIV)
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THIS CLASS WILL EXPLORE THE POST-
APOCALYPTIC IMAGINATION, FOCUSING
PRIMARILY ON SECULAR IMAGININGS OF
THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
IN FILM, GRAPHIC NOVELS, AND OTHER
FORMS OF POPULAR CULTURE. AS
STUDENTS EXPLORE CULTURAL
REPRESENTATIONS OF CATACLYSMIC
EVENTS THAT RANGE FROM THE OUTBREAK
OF ZOONOTIC DISEASE TO ENVIRONMENTA
DISASTER TO CYBERNETIC REVOLT, THEY
WOULD COME TO A DEEPER UNDERSTANDIN
OF CULTURAL ANXIETIES ENGAGED AND
EXPRESSED THROUGH THESE
REPRESENTATIONS. ULTIMATELY,
STUDENTS WOULD LEARN HOW THE POST-
APOCALYPTIC IMAGINATION CAN BOTH
ENDORSE POLITICAL APATHY AND FOMENT
POLITICAL RESISTANCE WHILE HONING A
CRITICAL APPARATUS FOR READING
POPULAR CULTURE. HYBRID CLASS.
Catalog Description:
Introduces strategies for interpreting popular culture and film, focusing on a range of filmic subgenres that imagine future worlds, while situating these films within wider cultural, political, and historical contexts and foregrounding questions of power and difference, science and technology, and the politics of representation. Offered: AS.
GE Requirements Met:
Diversity (DIV)
Arts and Humanities (A&H)
Writing (W)
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Active
Last updated:
May 5, 2024 - 11:46 am