Film Theory
Laura Harris
Thursdays, 6:00-10:00pm
Room 648
CINE-GT 1020 / Class # 7073
4 points
If the image generally describes a relation between the viewer and the viewed, what happens when that relation or even the existence of a separate/d viewer and viewed is troubled, no longer easily mappable, or even verifiable? How do we think with and through the image that remains? This will not be a comprehensive history of the way the image has been thought in film and visual studies. We will consider, instead, some late 20th/early 21st century writers and artists (such as Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Jack Smith, Yoko Ono, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Karen Barad, Wu Tsang and boychild, Hypatia Vourloumis and Sandra Ruiz, and/or others) who explore--through the gaps and portals they might find or create in the image and through whatever inter- or intra-actions or formless formations (anticolonial and anticapitalist, black and brown, feminist, queer and trans) the image might register or assemble--the possibilities of sensing, or what R A Judy has called “thinking in disorder.”