This module studies how contemporary films stage politics through everyday life, bodies, families, cities, water, work, sexuality, memory, colonial inheritance and threatened futures.
Learning goal
Analyze contemporary politics through memory, restitution, ecology, labor, gender, queer cinema, cities, youth and new subjectivities.
Completed lessons
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Course
Contemporary African Cinema
Lesson list
Lesson 1
Analyze memory and restitution as contemporary political and cinematic problems.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Analyze memory and restitution as contemporary political and cinematic problems.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Lesson 2
Study ecology as lived material condition, not only environmental theme.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Study ecology as lived material condition, not only environmental theme.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Lesson 3
Analyze how contemporary films represent youth, gender, urban life, desire and new forms of subjectivity.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Analyze how contemporary films represent youth, gender, urban life, desire and new forms of subjectivity.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Open only when you are ready to apply this module. The complete prompts are preserved here.
Prepare a sourced brief connecting one contemporary film, one industry or circulation issue, one formal choice and one audience or access question.
Expected output
A professional contemporary cinema brief ready for Unga Learn, CineMap, Shot Atlas, CineUbuntu or festival programming.
Quiz structure
1 question are prepared to validate the core concepts of this module.
Instructor-provided Formation 09 source material adapted into Unga Learn.