S2516D Touch
Class | This class is completed
This film series will explore how films create (ideal) viewers in and through cinematic techniques like narrative style, plot, editing, scene sequencing, dialogue, and emotional response. Films are powerful means of evoking thought, emotion, and judgement around representations of different social and political issues: legal and political culture, crime, punishment, intimacy, race, identity, gender, sex, sexuality, ethnicity, dignity, and value, e.g. Film has become an essential form of cultural activity that either challenges us to interrogate dominant norms and practices or deepen our uncritical allegiance to them.
[D] "Touch" (2024, 120 minutes) A romantic and thrilling story between Kristoffer and Miko that spans several decades and continents. "Touch" follows Kristoffer's emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago and to find her before his time runs out.
Live (In-Person Only) - Not Recorded
mark wenzel
mark wenzel has been a member of the Wayne State University Philosophy Department since 1998. He teaches courses in Global Ethics, Contemporary Moral Issues, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Arts. He developed a course in Classical Indian Philosophy, which was offered Fall 2023. mark has twice taught classes in Feminist Philosophy at the Huron Valley Women’s Prison. In the Fall of 2025, Wayne State University launched its own College in Prison Program at Macomb Correctional Facility.