Cinema and Television: Entangled Media H

Is this cinema or television? Moving beyond the advent of streaming platforms like Netflix and the rise of “global television,” the course will examine the 1970s and 1980s, an exciting period of collaboration between public television and independent filmmakers around the world, in which coproductions between cinema and television proliferated. From a historical and theoretical perspective, we will study key debates around media specificity and convergence, television as a “utopia,” and the challenges of coproduction between the “North” and the “South,” among other issues. The course is an invitation to approach film and television histories through an interconnected approach (across media and across nations), while focusing on a wide range of directors from the U.S., Europe and the so-called “Global South” (these might include Rossellini, Fassbinder, Godard & Miéville, Burnett, Ruiz, Black Audio Film Collective, Sarmiento, etc.).