FMST 047. Gender, Race, Dance, and Cinema

(Cross-listed as GSST 022, DANC 039)
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.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for GSST, DANC, BLST, ASAM, ESCH
Spring 2026. Li.
Catalog chapter: Film and Media Studies
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies

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