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Claremont Mckenna College

FREN 133 CM-01: Africa in France

  • Instructor: Aitel, Fazia
    • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-2:30PM
    • KRV Room 166 (The Kravis Center)
    • Elective

Since the late 1960s, new generations of French citizens has emerged to redefine France and Frenchness. These new generations are French citizens whose parents or grandparents were originally from North Africa or sub-Saharan Africa, yet who grew up or were born in France, often in the suburbs of major French cities. This course will focus on their experience and more broadly the experience of being African in France in the 21st Century, an experience rooted in migration and colonial history between France and the African continent. Specifically, however, we will also examine the place this new generation occupies in France today through close readings of selected literary and critical texts and through a range of media, old and new, aural and visual.

LIT 034 CM-01: Creative Journalism

  • Instructor: TBA
    • Wednesday; 2:45-5:30PM
    • RS Room 105 (Roberts South)
    • Elective

An intensive hands-on course in feature writing styles and journalistic ethics; a primer for writing in today’s urban America. Essentially, journalism, like all art, tells a story. How that story is told is as critical to the success of a piece as the importance of its theme. A series of writing exercises and reporting “assignments” will give both inexperienced and more advanced writers the tools to explore their writerly “voice.” Special attention will be devoted to discussions of the role of the journalist in society. All registered students must attend the first class.

LIT 138 CM-01: Film and Mass Culture

  • Instructor: Morrison, James E.
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 11:00AM-12:15PM
    • RN Room 15 (Roberts North)
    • Media Theory

This course will examine film as art and as medium in the context of the rise of 20th-century “mass culture.” We will take up such topics as the role of film in producing the ideas of “mass culture”; the cinematic representation of the “masses;” film as an instrument of the standardization of culture and as a mode of resistance to it; film and modernism; film and postmodernism; representations of fascism in cinema; and “subculture” considered as an effect of mass culture.

LIT 139 CM-01: Film Theory

  • Instructor: Morrison, James E.
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 2:45-4:00PM
    • RN Room 15 (Roberts North)
    • Media Theory

This course investigates the major film theories from the beginnings of cinema to the present. We begin with a study of classical film theory (1900-1960) that attempts to define the essence of the form, its relation to reality, and its status as mass medium and/or art. We then move on to more recent work that examines film from ideological, sociological, or psychological perspectives, or considers the changing nature of cinema in the digital age.

RLST 171 CM-01: Religion and Film

  • Instructor: Espinosa, Gaston
    • Thursday; 6:00-10:00PM
    • RS Room 104 (Roberts South)
    • Elective

This course employs critical social, race, gender, and post-colonial theories to analyze the role of religious symbols, rhetoric, values, and world-views in American film. After briefly examining film genre, structure, and screenwriting, the course will explore religious sensibilities in six genres such as: Historical Epic, Action/Adventure, Science Fiction, Comedy, Drama, and Politics.