CINE 122CNS
Cinema and Memory
Shambhavi Kaul
Description from DukeHub
How does cinema form, shape, and transmit memory. How does it preserve, challenge, or reshape our understanding of the past? This course examines the dynamic relationship between cinema and memory through considerations of personal and collective memory, to understand cinema as both an archive and a form of creative memorialization. Through screenings, readings, and discussions, students reflect critically on the ethics and aesthetics of remembering and forgetting on screen. Students complete weekly reflections, engage in simple film production exercises, and create a final film project exploring memory and cinema.
Skills
- makingAI review: "create a final film project exploring memory and cinema"
AI-resilient: 3 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "ethics"
- Yes: A craft you practice with your hands or body · "film production"
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 12 seats per section
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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