Indian and Nigerian Film Cultures

This class places into comparative focus one of the oldest and one of the newest forms of global cinema outside of the U.S. It introduces and examines these film industries – their platforms, histories, aesthetics, and place in postcolonial life. We will explore how non-western contexts of film production and exhibition offer alternative histories of film. Topics include: aesthetics and genre; space and urbanization; colonialism and post-colonialism, shifting platforms of media exhibition, globalization, the notion of the popular and its relation to art.