Updates to Syllabus

Tuesday November 16^th

Screen Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Sartrapi’s Persepolis

Oral Presentation

Homework: Read Hamid Naficy. Exile Discourse. 
Response for blog: 1-2 paragraphs.

Thursday November 18

Discuss Naficy

Screen Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala

Homework: Read Binita Mehta’s “Emigrants Displaced Twice: Race, Color and Identity in Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala” and Salman Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands”

Tuesday November 23

Finish screening Mississippi Masala

Discuss Mehta and Rushdie

           

Thursday November 25^th – No Class (Fall Recess)

Tuesday November 30^th

Screen Michael Haneke’s Code Inconnu

Homework: Read Samir Dayal’s Diaspora and Double Consciousness

Thursday December 2^nd

Oral Presentation, group 10

Discuss Dayal

Screen Cary Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre

Reading "What is Transnational Cinema?: A General Introduction" by Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden "Migrancy and the Latin American Cinemascape: Towards a Post-National Praxis" by Ann Marie Stock 

Optional: Read Camilla Foja’s “Urban Frontiers; Border Cinema and The Global City” from Border Bandits: Hollywood on the Southern Frontier

Tuesday December 7^th-

Finish screening Sin Nombre

Oral Presentation

Discussion of Sin Nombre

Pair up and discuss drafts of final paper.

Thursday December 9^th-

Conclusion

Continue revising of drafts

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