This course centers on connections between recent Latin American films and other media, especially music, literature, and television. We will explore how such connections critique certain sociopolitical and cultural milieus that the selected films spring from, seek to represent, or both. Interdisciplinary readings will anchor our discussions as we focus on illuminating the films’ nuanced commentaries on local particularities—but also foreign influences—through the intersections of politics, agency, gender, and race. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Juan José Campanella, Fabián Bielinsky, Martín Rejtman, Paula Markovitch, Paz Encina, Jayro Bustamente, and Lucrecia Martel will be at the heart of the course, for their films have reconfigured contemporary Latin American cinema in unexpected ways.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 10

Crosslisted Courses:

Prerequisites: Open to Senior and Junior majors or by permission of the instructor.

Instructor:  Selimovic

Distribution Requirements: LL - Language and Literature

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Not Offered

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