Cinema & Minority Identities.

Recently, I prepared a course for undergraduate students on the aforementioned subject. The purpose of the course was to study mainstream films and how they represent minority identities; the politics of seeing from outside and from inside and positioning of the gaze, and what happens when minority identities decide to take the centrestage and tell their own tale…

While seeing the films as texts, the course was to address the following issues:
1. Representation of minorities in a mainstream narrative and its need and purpose. Is it to accentuate the
mainstream to represent the social reality or to highlight the...