Looking at Africa:
Documentarist Strategies in Transcultural Film and Literature

Tuesday 10:15-11:45 AM
CIP-Pool 1.01

This course explores documentarist strategies in transcultural film and
literature, with a particular emphasis on contemporary and historical conflict. Its main themes (including child soldiers, migration, colonial memory) are introduced and developed in relation to the program of the annual African Cinema series. The course incorporates several workshops with well-known critics and directors, including Jean-Pierre Bekolo (Cameroon), Olivier Barlet (France), and Martin Baer (Germany).

Requirements: Attendance of all course meetings, films, and workshops.
Unbenoteter Schein: Final Exam.
Benoteter Schein: Final Exam, Term Paper.

Readings:

Please purchase the following titles (they have been ordered and should become available at the campus bookstore soon):

Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation, Perennial 2006, ISBN 0060798688

The Granta Book of Reportage, Granta Books 2007, IBSN 1862078157

Additional material will be made available online.