Diasporic Nonfiction: Media Engagements with Memory and Displacement I

(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).