SPAN 325: Hispanic cinema
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Hispanic and Luso- Brazilian Cinematic Lens- A Memorable Gaze to Human Odyssey: This course will examine the multiple ways that Hispanic and Brazilian filmmakers have seen Hispanic world, its people, religious beliefs and cultures for more than a century. This course provides the student with a range of perspectives on cultural developments in Spain, Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean from the colonial to the modern period, using critical and literary texts as well as films. From CSU Monterey Bay Catalog
COURSE NARRATIVE
I took this course with Professor Maria Zielina in Fall 2013 and it fulfills my MLO 4. We watched films from Latin America, Spain, Brazil and the Caribbean. For each film watched, we wrote a journal entry (reflection on the film) in which we stated our perspectives on the cultural developments of the presented places in the films. It was very important and interesting to analyzed the reason of the making of the film. In this films we could see the representation of gender, sexuality, nationalism, exile and religion. Some of the films watch were Hombre mirando al sureste, Official Story, The Headless Woman, Bitter Sugar, Strawberry and Chocolate, Guantanamera, Central Do Brazil, City of Gods Terra am Tramse, Los Olvidados Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman, El Perro de Andaluz, All about My Mother and more. I really enjoy this class, because I realized that films are just like literature, it makes you fly through the darkness until you find clarity, which means that you have to critically find the message that the director through the film is trying to deliver. It is a way of exposing unknown issues from other countries available to us. In a future I want to make my own collection of international films and with Gods grace, if I become a professor, I want to teach a international film course.
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