CTS423 : Film, culture and society / College of Creative Arts

The course examines the close relationship between cinematic representations, society and culture by focusing upon the roles and functions film serves as a popular and influential medium. It is important to come to critical terms with the way in which films in general address and represent pressing social concerns. For films in general have functioned as a particular cultural medium in constructing and disseminating various ideas and ideals, the course also looks into film in its cultural context – as a product of culture, a reflection of culture and a shaper of culture. Concurrently, the course is structured around particular thematic issues: film and popular culture; film and ideology; representation of gender and sexuality in film; representation of race and ethnicity in film; national identity and national cinema; film as social realism; and cinephilia and the death of cinema, among others.