Sessional Lecturer for CIN431H1F - Cinema That Doesn't Work

Date Posted: 05/08/2024 Req ID: 48017 Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science Department: Cinema Studies Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

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Course number and title: CIN431H1F - Cinema That Doesn't Work

Course description: This course explores how cinema has historically absorbed and reflected the boundaries between work and play, and how these questions also reflect anxieties about constructing and maintaining boundaries between race, class, and gender. Students will track cinema’s rise to the status of a medium worthy of analysis inside and outside the classroom; examine cinematic depictions of downtime and leisure; explore various independent film movements’ relationship to the art of making cinema as acts of labor or devotion; consider recent non-productive formal and ethical approaches to cinema such as the slow cinema m...