AST 187: Vietnamese and Overseas Vietnamese Cinema

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours

Catalog page 117

Description: Prerequi- site(s): MCS 020 or upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores how Vietnamese people and the Vietnamese diaspora seek to imagine a sense of com- munity in the postwar era through contemporary film and video. Examines the thematics of return, longing, and exile. Reviews some of the texts’ bold expressions of gender, sexuality, and identity.

Cross-listing: Cross-listed with MCS 167 and SEAS 177.

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