The opening module builds the method of the course. It shows that political cinema is not only cinema about governments, but also cinema about gaze, silence, language, memory, bodies, audiences and access.
Learning goal
Define African political cinema as a relation between power, images, public life, form, censorship and circulation.
Completed lessons
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Course
African Cinema and Politics
Lesson list
Lesson 1
Understand political cinema as a field of power, representation, institutions and public debate.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Understand political cinema as a field of power, representation, institutions and public debate.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Lesson 2
Analyze how colonial images organized power and how African and anticolonial films challenged that gaze.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Analyze how colonial images organized power and how African and anticolonial films challenged that gaze.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Lesson 3
Build a practical grid for reading a film politically without reducing it to a message.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Build a practical grid for reading a film politically without reducing it to a message.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Open only when you are ready to apply this module. The complete prompts are preserved here.
Prepare a political analysis brief connecting at least one film, one formal choice, one historical context and one public circulation issue.
Expected output
A sourced political cinema brief that can support Unga Learn, CineMap, Shot Atlas or CineUbuntu.
Quiz structure
1 question are prepared to validate the core concepts of this module.
Instructor-provided Formation 05 source material adapted into Unga Learn.