- Postcolonial Cinemas This course will critically examine films in countries and contexts whose cultural references are defined by colonial and anticolonial histories. The films will be looked at as modes of signifying and representing national, ethnic, class, racial, gender and sexual discourses. It will also study how films textually negotiate conditions of being, belonging and becoming for ...www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/aamkpa/postcolonial-cinemas