Oct 10, 2025  
2025-2026 Franklin & Marshall College Catalog 
  
2025-2026 Franklin & Marshall College Catalog
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WGS 214 - Race, Gender, Migration in Film


Description
This course explores the construction of race and gender in films centered on the experience of migration, diaspora, and displacement from Africa toward Europe. We will analyze both documentary and fiction films by European, African, and diasporic filmmakers based in the Mediterranean region, in order to understand how cinema both reveals and helps to construct cultural and social attitudes toward migrants and asylum seekers from the global South. Our methodology will be informed by intersectional critical approaches, post- and de-colonial theory, and will be grounded in film studies. Same as AFS/FLM 214 .
Credits: 1

Course Attribute(s):
ARTS Gen Ed: Arts Requirement
WRLD Gen Ed: World Perspectives Req
Major:Women’s,Gender,Sexuality



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