HIST 3245
Third World History through Film
Weekly Screenings and Reading
(The following schedule is tentative and subject to change please check regularly online)
PART I – the Reaction to Colonialism and Imperialism, the Revolutionary Decades
1950s-1970s
Week 2
Jan 19th
Introduction to course
Screening and discussion of clips from Reel Bad Arabs, African Queen,
The Bicycle Thief. Third Cinema/ Third World Cinema
Borom Sarret
and Camera Arabe
Read for today Frantz Fanon “On National Culture” (Georgia View
Armes, 1-33
Week 3
Jan 26th
India
World of Apu (Apu Sansar) 1959
Read for today Armes 105-161, 231-241
Amartya Sen on Satyajit Ray
http://satyajitray.ucsc.edu/articles/sen.html
Week 4
February 2nd
Latin America
development of Third Cinema
Hour of the Furnaces
Read for today Documents: "Towards a Third Cinema . ." & "For an Imperfect
Cinema", (Georgia View)
Armes 35- 100
Week 5
February 9th
Cuba
Screening of Lucia
Armes 163-87, 355-67
Donald Stevens, ed. Based on a True Story 123-142 (Georgia View)
Julianne Burton, First Twenty-Five Years . . . (Georgia View)
Week 6
February 16th
Sub-Saharan African Film
Paper Topic DUE! (Georgia view e-mail)
Wendi Kuuni
Read for Today Armes 214-225, 281-291
Manthia Diawara African Cinema 35-83 (Georgia View)
Week 7
Arab Cinema
February 23rd
Dreams of Hind and Camelia (Egypt)
Read for Today
Armes 189-214
Voila Shafik Arab Cinema 184-213 (Georgia View)
Third World Filmmakers Resolutions (Georgia View)
Week 8
March 3rd
Palestine Cinema
Wedding in Galilee
Read for Today Michel Khleifi "From Reality to Fiction - From Poverty to
Expression" (Georgia View)
Midterm Exam (Take-home)
Midterm Exam due Friday submit Georgia View Drop Box
MARCH 4th Last Day to drop
Week 9
March 7th - 11th
SPRING BREAK
PART II - Structural Adjustment, Neo Liberalism, Postcolonial Critiques
1980s-2000s
Week 10
March 16th
Paper Bibliography DUE (Formatted e-mail in Georgia View)
Hyenas
(Senegal)
Read for today
Readings in Georgia View
Week 11
March 23rd
Ten (Iran)
Readings in Georgia View
Week 12
March 30th
Amores Perros (Mexico)
Readings in Georgia View
Week 13
April 6th
City of God (Brazil)
Read for Today two Articles (Georgia View)
Week 14
April 13th
Bus 174
(Brazil)
Readings in Georgia View
Week 15
April 20th
PAPERS DUE!
Presentations
Week 16
April 27th (Last class day)
Presentations
Take Home Final
Presentations Final Exam Period