Framing asylum: Refugees on film - Einzelansicht

Course Description

 This course does not aim to be a comprehensive survey of films about refugees. Rather it looks at some important recent films, both fiction and non-fiction, and contextualises them within the wider politics of representation that shapes how refugees and their experiences have been framed. It considers the strategies that films use to depict their subjects’ experience of the search for refuge, and the potential for film as a medium to disrupt dominant perceptions of refugees that are circulated in popular culture.

Please note that this course will be assessed on the basis of written assignments ONLY. No presentations will be accepted. More details on assessment will be provided in the first seminar.