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Building on the material being analysed in the VL on “India under British Rule” (participation in this VL is recommended), this seminar will focus on the transcultural interweaving of Indian and British lives in the context of personal relations, of collective resistance during colonization and contemporary race relations. Using well-received films as our texts, we will be examining the kind of reality presented in each, and at the choices with regard to representation that have obviously been made in these films. Some of the questions we will set out to answer are: who are the hero/ines, who the villains, does it matter, and if so, why does it?
Film Texts:
Heat and Dust (1983)
Lagaan (2001)
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
Participation
Regular attendance and active participation in all sessions; thorough acquaintance with all the material listed above before the first session; individual research on a relevant topic of your choice for short oral presentations / group work, followed by a term paper (7500 words, in MLA format) on a larger research topic. Please check the TAS website under "Your Studies" for further details about oral presentation and essay writing modalities. |
