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LAW395A - Intersocietal Jurisprudence Through Cinema

Description

Draws Canadian and Indigenous legal orders into engagement, using film as a primary text. Examines Hollywood, documentary, and independent film genres, produced by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous filmmakers, focusing on intersocietal encounters. Considers theoretical, philosophical and practical scholarship about the cinematic realm to explore how narrative, oral and visual tools of storytelling structure understandings of law, justice, gender, truth, community and nation.

Units

1.5

Hours: lecture-lab-tutorial

3-0-0

Note(s)

  • Credit will be granted for only one of LAW 395A, LAW 343 (if taken as section A03 in Jan-Apr 2019 or section A04 Jan-Apr 2021).

Course offered by

Faculty of Law

Course schedules

Summer timetable available: February 15. Fall and Spring timetables available: May 15.

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