This talk by Dr. Jackson Katz took place in January 23rd as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month at UBC. I’m posting it here in case anyone is interested to watch Dr. Katz’s recorded lectures on YouTube, some of them directly related to the course theme.
Rosa’s graffiti.
Nov 25th, 2011, Guatemala City.
The text reads:
Those who attack women, rape them and kill them, are not sick. They are criminals.
A morning outing with grandma Rosa.
Nov 25th, 2011, Guatemala City
How have theories such as Marxism, psychoanalysis, literary theory, structuralism, and others been used by Western Film theorists to respond to an increasingly globalized consciousness?
Can the established “universals” of Western film theory be applied to non-Western films?
What issues might arise from cross cultural applications of such theories?
Can you draw examples of this from your own viewing experiences?
Gray, Gordon
2010 Film Theory. In Cinema: A Visual Anthropology, Pp.35-73.
Oxford,New York: Berg.