SPAN 270 Latin American Cinema: A History
This course, taught in English, offers an in depth introduction to the history of Latin American cinema and film culture. With a comparative approach, it studies cinema's capacity to motivate political reflection, build modern identities, and shape public discourse in a region rife with social inequality. Travelling across regions and époques/times, the course covers six cinematic periods: contemporary cinema, the New Latin American Cinema, Art Cinema, Neorealism, Studio Cinema, and Silent Cinema. Students will pay attention to the historical and sociopolitical contexts films spring from and reflect upon, while developing the critical tools and learn basic theoretical tenets for the study of moving images.