Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0240 - Radical Collectives

Radical Collectives is a theory and production course that looks at the documentary films produced in the late 1960s and 1970s in the USA by the California Newsreel, the Third World Newsreel and the Newsreel collective. These films were a direct response to the political landscape in the USA, addressing and challenging the hegemonic cinematic and mainstream news discourse on local, national and international issues. The prolific body of work produced by these collectives addressed issues of race, class, sexism, portraying amongst many other topics the student movements on campuses, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the Women's Rights movement and the Latino and Black Liberation movement. The collectives were a utopian call to democratize cinema, to abolish film authorship and to produce work that is committed to issues that concern their communities and that would assist in reaching the goals of a more just society. In this course, students will direct one short video that addresses an urgent contemporary issue in the USA.

Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research Lab fee: $65. Prerequisites: Intro to Media Studies and Film Studies. In this course, students are expected to spend approximately 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.