SPAN 325: Hispanic Cinema
Course Description:
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. Taught in English.
Course Narrative:
This course went over many different films and different messages that required some contextual knowledge. We learned about each director and what influences drove them to why they created the film as they narrated an event through their own lens. Each week we would watch a film and write a reflection of what we thought. A lot of the films were quite shocking at times to display some of the horrors that had happened in each respective film. It was interesting to compare to my own culture as well as Japanese culture while trying to also make connections. This course fulfills MLO 3: Secondary Culture.
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. Taught in English.
Course Narrative:
This course went over many different films and different messages that required some contextual knowledge. We learned about each director and what influences drove them to why they created the film as they narrated an event through their own lens. Each week we would watch a film and write a reflection of what we thought. A lot of the films were quite shocking at times to display some of the horrors that had happened in each respective film. It was interesting to compare to my own culture as well as Japanese culture while trying to also make connections. This course fulfills MLO 3: Secondary Culture.