SOC 269: Sociology of World Cinema [S/B]

Introduces one of the most vital and significant aspects of cultural life in the world. The world cinema is central to an artistic self-awareness that reflects a range of dominant social and cultural issues. Through a number of feature films from the Arab, Iranian, Israeli, Turkish, Chinese, Indian, French, Italian, German, Mexican, and American cinema, this course takes these cultural products as the aesthetic expressions of some enduring social, cultural, political, and economic concerns in contemporary world societies. A total of about ten feature films are shown and discussed in the course of the quarter.