Course Content

Three of our four core faculty applied for and received Mellon “Humanities for Our Times” grants to develop new courses in Equity and Power. New courses being developed under this grant include “Racial Capitalism in U.S. Film and Media (1970 to present)” and “Genre Filmmaking: Realism,” which intends to teach students how artists from diverse ethnic, racial, gender, and sexual backgrounds rigorously expanded what reality is and how it can be represented on screen. 

We also remain committed to our institutional relationship with Georgia State University’s department of Moving Image Studies. Block 6 in the spring of 2023 will be taught by GSU visiting professor Alessandra Raengo, and is titled, “The Liquidity of the Black Arts.” This course focuses on ‘ensembles’ of contemporary black visual artists and filmmakers who practice what, at a 2004 conference on Romare Beardern’s work, Toni Morrison described as the ”liquidity” of the black arts, i.e., a constant intermingling between art forms and the understanding and practicing of one in terms of another: jazz as collage, photography as music, sound as moving images, cinematic movement as color.