2021 Fall

SASIAN 130 001 - LEC 001

Film, Visual Media and Spectatorship Practices in Modern South Asia

Vasugi Kailasam

Aug 25, 2021 - Dec 10, 2021

Mo, We, Fr

11:00 am - 11:59 am

Dwinelle 229

Class #:30161

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through South and Southeast Asian Studies

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 13

Enrolled: 17

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 30

Waitlist Max: 5

No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 9 hours of outside work hours per week.

Other classes by Vasugi Kailasam

This course will examine the role of film, visual media and spectatorship practices in the construction and narration of modern South Asia. In particular, this course will interrogate how modern South Asia has been produced and represented in different visual aesthetic forms such as popular film, arthouse cinema, documentaries, the graphic novel and contemporary digital media spaces such as YouTube. The course will introduce visual and media theories that frame the South Asian filmic and popular cultural forms, the intersections of South Asian visual media in the production of the ‘everyday’ in South Asia and the visual pleasures associated with these spectatorship practices.