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Sep 27, 2024
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College Bulletin 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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FMST 035. Histories of Water
Film and history are narrative forms that have both been challenged-creatively and analytically-by the subject of water, its politics and its poetics. This course will explore the written and filmic histories of water through analytic as well as artistic practice. Students will watch films in different genres (the film essay, found footage film, experimental documentary, and dramatic narrative) and read across sub-disciplines of history (from the early modern Pacific world to climate change denialism in the late twentieth centuries). We will discuss themes that emerge at the intersection of water history and water cinema: water as mystery/nature; water as social, political, and ecological crisis; water as dream of leisure and recreation; water as space of labor, economy, transit. The final project addresses a specific problem in the history of water through a creative and analytical lens.
Eligible for ENVS credit.
(Cross-listed as HIST 061 )
1 credit.
Fall 2014. Cho, Azfar.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
Film and Media Studies
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