WGS-338 Re-Imagine the World: Transnational Feminism in Film
This course explores the representations of cisgender and trans women in film through the critical lens of transnational feminism, which invites us to reimagine the ways we think about the relationship between the local and the global, as well as the connections between an individual womans life and the collective experience of women. Course readings and class discussions focus on the social structures, experiences ad histories that have defined womens lives across space and time in relationship to family dynamics, race, class, sexuality, gender expression, colonialism and immigration. We consider the ways in which the visual language of film shapes our understanding of the complex portrayals of marginalized and under-represented women.