FILM TV 106CThird Cinema and Its Legacies
Film and Television · 6 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Focus on films drawn mainly from cinema of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, with additional films encompassing Third Cinema and diasporas that complement and contextualize thinking about these regions and various cinema movements they have generated. Examination of the influences and socioeconomic conditions in which they emerge, and how they revolutionized film aesthetics. These films diverge from, as well as respond to, the language and visual idiom of Hollywood and popular European Cinema, and therefore, may challenge expectations. Study is concerned with how cinema interprets history, conveys cultural beliefs, and comes to terms with identity, history, and politics caused by colonialism, nationalism, and traditionalism.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Summer 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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