FS446f: Ante-National Cinemas (Winter 2027)

Position Summary

This course is a study of the representation, construction, and maintenance of national identities in a selection of films produced in Canada, with an emphasis on how diverse minoritarian cinemas (such as BIPOC and diasporic cinemas) may resist identifying as Canadian, may interrogate the tensions between feminist and nationalist discourses, and/or may advocate for a distinct nation within a nation. In this context, the term “antenational” signals a cinema that stands not “against” the nation but rather “before” the nation; the course therefore foregrounds fragments, differences, and incongruities rather than a coherent historical lineage or homogenous perspective on identity. Assigned films include Double Happiness (Shum 1994), Brown Girl Begins (Lewis 2017), Maliglutit (Kunuk 2016), Beeba Boys (Mehta 2015), among others.

Qualifications – Required Academic Degree: PhD

Qualifications – Required Discipline: Fil...