This graduate seminar explores the relationship between cinema and ideology from a variety of methodological perspectives. Psychoanalytically inflected film theory (suture, apparatus, the gaze) and critique of ideology, as well as a range of historical and contemporary practices of political filmmaking, will be studied. Particular emphasis will be placed on formal analysis and close reading of selected films and written texts.
4-5 units · Letter or Credit/No Credit
This graduate seminar explores the relationship between cinema and ideology from a variety of methodological perspectives. Psychoanalytically inflected film theory (suture, apparatus, the gaze) and critique of ideology, as well as a range of historical and contemporary practices of political filmmaking, will be studied. Particular emphasis will be placed on formal analysis and close reading of selected films and written texts.
Offered in Autumn 2025 at Stanford University.