This seminar will be devoted to an understanding of the ways in which the production, labor, aesthetics, circulation, and reception of cinema and media have been affected by recent processes of globalization, including trade, investment, finance, migration, technological innovation, and the spread of diasporic culture and ideoscapes (Appadurai). By placing an emphasis on meso- and microlevels of mediamaking and distribution, we will be able to discern and distinguish the “transnational,” transborder, and “translocal” dimensions of media flows and texts from the mega-global, allowing closer scrutiny of how timeworn practices linked to authorship, stardom, genre, and narration have been transformed by global change as it has manifested in all five regions of the world. Our inquiry will be interdisciplinary at heart, informed by social scientific (Canclini, Hall, Sassen) as well as cultural studies and media studies theories (Cunningham, Hansen, Hjort, Ishaghpour, Nafici) and methodologies. Students will be asked to complete a book review, critical essay, peer critiques, and a research proposal. One half of the assigned media and literature will originate from the Hispanophone and Lusophone world – this seminar qualifies for the Global Cultures and Latin American Studies graduate emphases.
Wednesday, 4-6:50 p.m.
Prof. Catherine L. Benamou
cbenamou@uci.edu
Enroll today!
Wednesday, 4-6:50 p.m.
Prof. Catherine L. Benamou
cbenamou@uci.edu
Enroll today!