Film Studies and Politics

About this course

Film studies and politics is a pairing that foregrounds the relationship between cinema and power. Films are never politically neutral: they encode assumptions about race, gender, class, national identity, and political authority; they can sustain dominant ideologies or subvert them; they shape how audiences understand history, war, governance, and social conflict. Film studies approaches cinema as a significant intellectual and cultural form, examining how films are made, how they create meaning, and how different cinematic traditions have developed across the globe. Politics examines the structures of power, the making of policy, and the organisation of collective life in societies. At the School of Oriental and African Studies, this three-year full-time programme approaches both disciplines with a distinctive emphasis on traditions beyond the Western mainstream, examining cinema from

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