This module explores how world cinema has engaged with the migratory experience across time, space, and cultures. Drawing on films from across a range of languages and cultures, Cross-Cultural Cinema focuses in particular on late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of refugees, asylum seekers, exiles, and other migrants, while probing the concept of displacement on the global scale. In navigating this topic, students will be supported in developing techniques of film analysis that will enable them to interpret these films as artistic, cultural, and political artefacts. Historical, political and theoretical contextualization will be provided when necessary. Student will be guided to familiarize themselves with the scholarly literature dedicated to the films under study, and will be encouraged to enter in dialogue with it when considering these films.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students should be able to:
analyse the representation of migrants and migrant communities with reference to key cinematic works from diverse language areas;
interpret the films studied using appropriate techniques of film analysis.
reflect on the stylistic, technical and ethical implications of representing human migration and displacement on screen
analyse films effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Assessment
Assessment Methods & Exceptions
Assessment:
1 x 2000-word essay in English (75%) A 10-minute audio-visual recorded presentation in English of a short film extract (25%)
