SPA 4330 - Current Latin-American Cinema

Credits: 4
Latin-American cinema has always reflected the region’s past struggles as well as present challenges and transformations within the framework of its unique, diverse, and complex cultural traditions. This course, taught in Spanish, will examine Latin-American films produced and released during the 21st century that address present-day agendas and debates in the region concerning minorities and citizenship, women, violence and inequality, social justice and human rights, transitions to democracy, environmental crisis, reexaminations of the traumatic past, among others. The course will offer a broad selection of fiction films and documentaries not only from Mexico’s and Argentina’s well established and renowned film industry, but also from other countries who have only recently started quality film productions. Special emphasis will be placed on understanding these pressing issues today as representative of the Latin-American society and experience within the realm of our globalized world.
Prerequisite(s) SPA-2230
McDaniel Plan: International; Social, Cultural and Historical Understanding