Undergraduate Course: Latin American Film: History, Identity and Social Justice (ELCH10059)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will offer an introduction to a range of Latin American films from different periods and styles, focusing on how filmmakers have recorded and contested societal and political upheaval. Students will examine a selection of Latin American films (originally in Spanish and in some cases Portuguese and Indigenous languages) in order to explore issues relating to history, identity and social justice. The syllabus includes films from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Cuba and Colombia, among other countries, and the course will make reference to broader continental and international currents, such as Third Cinema. The material will be discussed in terms of both the aesthetic contributions the films have made and their foregrounding of discourses on memory, violence, state terror, gender discrimination and ethnicity. |
| Course description |
This course will offer an introduction to a range of Latin American films from different period and styles, focusing on how filmmakers have recorded and contested societal and political upheaval. Students will examine a selection of Latin American films (originally in Spanish and in some cases in Indigenous languages) in order to explore issues relating to history, identity and social justice. The syllabus includes films from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Panama and Bolivia, among others, and the course will make reference to broader continental and international currents, such as Third Cinema. The material will be discussed in terms of both the aesthetic contributions the films have made and their foregrounding of discourses on memory, violence, state terror, gender discrimination and ethnicity.
A selection of the following themes will be covered:
- Introduction to Film Theory and Analysis;
- Latin American Film history overview;
- Third Cinema, Imperfect Cinema, and pornomiseria;
- Patricio Guzman and the Pinochet dictatorship;
- Post-dictatorship film in Argentina;
- Urban culture and film aesthetics;
- Displacement and the politics of land;
- Gender and sexuality
- Indigenous and Afro-Latin American narratives.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Entry to Spanish Hons required. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 22,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
172 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
70 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
One 2 hour exam worth 70% of the final mark;
and 2 film reviews of 750 words each worth 30% in total.
One class presentation for which they will receive feedback. This constitutes the formative component of assessment. |
| Feedback |
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course students will:
¿ Be familiar with the key issues relevant to Latin American film, in particular the socio-political contexts of cultural production;
¿ have studied a diverse range of Latin American films, in fiction and documentary;
¿ be able to use the appropriate terms and frameworks in analytical writing on Latin American film;
¿ have developed skills in researching, interpreting, discussing and writing about film, in general and in relation to specific cultural contexts.
Students should also have consolidated their skills in:
¿ Research
¿ Written communication
¿ Verbal presentation
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Reading List
Aguilar, Gonzalo. Otros mundos: Un ensayo sobre el nuevo cine argentino (Buenos Aires: Santiago Arcos, 2006)
Andermann, Jens. New Argentine Cinema (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2012)
Hayward, Susan. Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (London and New York: Routledge, 2000)
King, John. Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America. London & New York; Verso, 1990.
King, John, Ana M. López and Manuel Alvarado. Mediating Two Worlds: Cinematic Encounters in the Americas. London: British Film Institute, 1993.
Martin, Michael T. New Latin American Cinema. Vol I & II. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997.
Page, Joanna. Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009)
Pick, Zuzana M. The New Latin American Cinema: a Continental Project. Austin: U of Texas P, 1993.
Shaw, Deborah. Contemporary Latin American Cinema; Breaking into the Global Market. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.
Shohat, Ella and Robert Stam. Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (London and New York: Routledge, 1994)
Stam, Robert. Film Theory: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000)
Stock, Ann Marie. Framing Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Charlotte Gleghorn
Tel: (0131 6)51 3237
Email: Charlotte.Gleghorn@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr David Warnock
Tel: (0131 6)50 3646
Email: David.Warnock@ed.ac.uk |
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