(Cross-listed as MERI-315 and LAST-315). This course explores Latin American Cinema, either as a whole or focused on one particular national tradition -- depending on the necessities of the students, and if its offered on campus or abroad. Either way, it will analyze films both in its artistic importance, and its historical value to approach to the political and cultural context of the countries/region studied. Some topics for the Latin American class are dictatorships in Argentina and Chile; multiculturalism in Peru and Bolivia; immigration in El Salvador and Honduras; revolution in Cuba and Venezuela, etc. We will use multiple approaches and methodologies to study national cinema(s), emphasizing their relationship to politics, history, and culture. This course also aims to build an idea of what 'national history' and 'national identity' meant over the last century, the role cinema played in that construction, and how these traditions and film industries currently interplay with global markets. (One course.)
- Teacher: Amy de Farias
- Teacher: Sabino Luevano-Ortega