Contemporary films often stage new subjectivities through cities, youth cultures, gender negotiations, queer desire, migration, friendship, precarity and urban futures.
Lesson goal
Analyze how contemporary films represent youth, gender, urban life, desire and new forms of subjectivity.
Module
Politics, Memory, Ecology, Gender, Cities and New Subjectivities
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Formation 09 lecture placeholder · Gender, Cities, Youth, Queer Cinema and New Subjectivities
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Situate gender, cities, youth, queer cinema and new subjectivities through period, method, institutions, audiences and circulation.
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Study authorship, popular industries, genres, platforms, archives, politics, cities and publics.
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Turn the analysis into a program, critical dossier, Shot Atlas note, CineMap record, CineUbuntu debate or festival brief.
Contemporary African cinema is not one style, one market or one festival category. It includes auteur films, popular industries, series, YouTube circulation, diasporic works, documentaries, archives, genre films, experimental practices and new publics.
Contemporary films often stage new subjectivities through cities, youth cultures, gender negotiations, queer desire, migration, friendship, precarity and urban futures.
Discussion prompt
Which contemporary force is most visible here: form, industry, platform, politics, audience, archive or circulation?
Exercise prompt
Design a CineUbuntu debate prompt around youth, city, gender or queer subjectivity in one film.
Practice
Work through the exercises and complementary resources after reading the lesson.
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Quiz
Answer 2 questions, review explanations and continue when ready.
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