SPA 368 - Topics: Radical Aesthetics and Social Justice in Latin American Cinema (1)

This course offers an overview of Latin American cinema, from the emergence of the New Latin American Cinema movement in the 1960s to contemporary film production across the region. Students will become familiar with influential texts such as Glauber Rocha’s Aesthetics of Hunger and Julio García Espinoza’s For an Imperfect Cinema. Some of the films in the course include Nicolás Guillén Landrián’s Ociel del Toa, María Novarro’s Lola, and Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985. Classes will alternate between critical readings and film analysis. Students will examine how aesthetic innovation intersects with questions of race, gender, and social justice in these films and how they visualize Latin American societies and history. This course will also introduce students to the study of film history, theory, and analysis. Prerequisite: SPA 311
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