FYS 1286 - Latin-American Films

Credits: 4
This course offers an overview of Latin-American films. The course will explore familiar topics within Latin America’s film industry such as structural inequality, violence, urban life, human rights and social justice, dictators and revolutions, middle class, etc. In addition, the course will also examine films that highlight pressing issues in the region’s social-political agenda including feminism, LGTBQ rights and movement, racism, narcoculture, migration, environmental justice, youth and coming of age, among others. Special emphasis will be placed on productions directed by women filmmakers as well as films shot in different indigenous languages. This course will be taught in English. No previous knowledge of Spanish or the Spanish speaking world’s culture will be required for this course. All films will have English subtitles.
McDaniel Plan: First-Year Seminar