Arts, Sciences, and Engineering					Film and Media Studies
Course Section Listing	Course	Course Title					Term	Credits	Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-110455	FMST 208-1	Animating Race					Spring 2021	4.0	Open
Schedule:		Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date TR 940 1055 Online Room 4 (ASE)
Enrollment:		Enrolled      24	Capacity      30
Co-Located:		AAAS 297-1 (P), AHST 297-1, ENGL 228-2, FMST 208-1, GSWS 297-1
Instructors:		Patrick Sullivan
Description:		As Disney’s recent disclaimer of “outdated cultural depictions” that accompanies racist portrayals in its classical animation suggests, the relationship between race and animation has often been vexed. This course will explore—through both historical and formal approaches—the roles race and racism perform in animated cultural expressions—cinema, television, and video games. With a commitment to intersectionality, this course explores and interrogates gender, sexuality, and class in tandem with race. Topics will include minstrelsy and early animation; racial grotesqueness and independent animation; African-American culture in anime; blackness and kinetic economies; censorship and television cartoons; video game avatars and gendered embodiment.
Offered:		Fall Spring Summer