Religion and Film in America
This five-week, in-person summer course is open to pre-college students attending the commuting or residential High School Summer Scholars Program.
This course attends to how religion, religious groups, and religious practices have been historicallyrepresented in the American popular culture, specifically, film. This course will consider film as morethan simple entertainment. We will examine not only how in the United States film has functioned asa means to establish what counts as religion, but also how and with what results imaginations ofreligion in film helped and continue to help to construct normative conceptions of gender, race, and ethnicity.
Prerequisite: none
