This is a co-taught in-person course in Film Studies and Development Studies that explores relationships between the lived environments of the so-called “developing world” and their representations in film. In this course, which is designed to satisfy the requirements of the General Education “Lived Environments” theme, students will view narrative and documentary films from around the world and engage the stories they tell by way of readings on global poverty, inequality, environmental degradation, among other themes. This course engages a diverse range of approaches to studying the developing world, focusing on the production of knowledge and structures of perception that shape relations between social groups at different spatial scales and that sustained a notion of the world as containing developed and developing regions.

Fulfills GEN Theme: Lived Environments