Latin American Cinema

This course is a survey of Latin American cinema. We will watch approximately one film per week and discuss them in Spanish in a small classroom setting. Throughout the course we will pay special attention to how cinematic constructions of multiple modernities are linked to different understandings of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality. The course will cover the following major cinematic periods:

• silent cinema (1890s-1930s)
• studio cinema (1930s-1950s)
• Neorealism/Art Cinema (1950s)
• the New Latin American Cinema (1960s -1980s)
• contemporary cinema (1990s to today)