Class Id: 7841
Days: TTh
Start Time: 08:30 AM
End Time: 09:50 AM
Building: STANH
Room: 201
Course Id: 3460
Departments and Numbers: AAS 339, ENG 339
Area: LA
Title: Josephine Baker and the Modern
Description: What does a black burlesque star have to do with the making of Euro-American modernity? This course situates the performance art of Josephine Baker as a dynamic fulcrum through which to trace the unexpected connections between the invention of what might be called a "modernist style" and the staging of black skin at the turn of the 20th century. We will study her work in film, photography, and cinema as an active and profound engagement with a range of modernist innovations and theories in the fields of film, photography, architecture, art, and literature.
Prerequisites:
Professors: Anne A. Cheng
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