FMST 047. Gender, Race, Dance, and Cinema

(Cross-listed as GSST 022)
What does it mean to be moved? To see movement on screen? This advanced undergraduate course looks at filmic representations of dance throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Treating dance on film as more than just a spectacle of entertainment or mere affirmation of cultural identity and history, we will develop critical toolkits for understanding how the politics of race (primarily Black and Asian diasporic) and gender shape interpretations of dance on film.
Prerequisite: Students will need to have taken at least one prior course in FMST, ASAM, BLST, or GSST and be familiar with close reading performance, film, and/or literature.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for GSST, DANC, BLST, ASAM
Spring 2026. Li.
Catalog chapter: Film and Media Studies
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies

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