WEEK 6 *MAY 24TH LECTURE POWER AND GAZE II: ORIENTALISM & SEEING THE OTHER

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Homework Viewing
TheWorld of Susie Wong, Dir. Richard Quine, 1960 [available online]
&
‘This is America’ MTV (artist: Childish Gambino)







Required Readings:
Said, E. W. (1985). Orientalism reconsidered. Race & class, 27(2), 1-15.

Shohat, Ella & Stam, Robert. (1998). ‘Narrativizing Visual Culture: Towards a polycentric aesthetics’in The Visual Culture Reader, edited by Mirzoeff, N.  London; New York: Routledge. P37-59

Reference Readings:
The Provocation and Power of Black Panther
< https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/02/the-provocation-and-power-of-black-panther/553226/>

 Visualizing Race, Identity and Change
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2013/09/17/visualizing-change/

Reference Viewing:
Interviewwith Edward Said on Orientalism, 1998
[Ran: you definitely want to watch this 40-min long documentary that covers lots of quite relevant topics on Middle East, 9.11; Muslim world; terrorism; Americanism]

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