UCL 300 - African-American Cinema, Film and Hip-Hop

3 Credit Hours

This course will intensively focus on more recent films with Black subjectivity in both dominant and independent cinema. We will consider the legacy of both “Blaxploitation” and the radical film movement of the early 1970’s on artists of the 1980’s and 90’s. It will also examine the effect of the Hip-Hop culture on Black America. The class correlates the climate and cultural history with various genres of music that led to Hip-Hop music. Individual artists are studied not in isolation, but as part of the larger cultural context.