Westworld Their World (Season 2)
Course Description
Summary
Westworld (Season 2) HBO’s “science fiction western thriller” television series, drives a broadly-conceived visual culture/cultural studies course in which we identify and analyze various aesthetics and genres, histories and visions, typologies, theologies, and allegories on screen and off—both inside and outside the show’s narrative. Possibilities include: feminism, sexploitation, artificial intelligence; Afrofuturism/Afro-Pessimism; Native American and Indigenous rights and representation; Opera; Orientalism; remakes; tv westerns; queerness and speculative fiction; decolonization; Anlin-Cheng; Said, Spillers, etc.
Learning Outcomes
- transdisciplinarity; analytical scholarly writing and thinking; discussion; presentation
Prerequisites
Coursework in Art History, e.g. Toward a Rigorous Art History; Westworld (Season One)--and/or Advanced work in Visual Studies/Cultural Theory/Literature; film studies; critical race theory; Black Studies; Queer Theory; Gender Studies.
Please contact the faculty member : vanessalyon@bennington.edu