CCAS M140ADiasporic Nonfiction: Media Engagements with Memory and Displacement I
Chicana/o and Central American Studies · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Same as African American Studies M170A.) Video production course, with emphasis on autobiographical, critical, and performance-based modes of nonfiction media making, drawing on practices of diasporic filmmakers who have grappled with suppressed collective memories of displacement, trauma, exile, and migration. What does it mean to make videos about memory in places where direct cues to remembering cannot be seen? Introduction to concepts from films and readings. Production assignments and screenings, with focus on questions of how to represent history, memory, family dynamics, and lived experience according to perspectives and interests of diasporic subjects. In Progress grading (credit to be given only on completion of course M140B).
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
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CCAS M140A
- CCAS M140BDiasporic Nonfiction: Media Engagements with Memory and Displacement II
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