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2011/2 Provisional Module Catalogue - UNDER CONSTRUCTION & SUBJECT TO CHANGE
 Module Code: MFC1016 Module Title: WORLD CINEMA I (LATIN AMERICA)
Module Provider: Dance,Film & Theatre Short Name: MFC1016
Level: HE1 Module Co-ordinator: BLANCO BORELLI M Dr (Dnc Flm Thtr)
Number of credits: 15 Number of ECTS credits: 7.5
 
Module Availability

Semester 1.

Assessment Pattern

Unit(s) of Assessment

 

Weighting Towards Module Mark( %)

 

Group presentation + ULearn discussion

 

40%

 

Final essay 1500 words

 

60%

 

Module Overview

This module introduces students to the cinema of Latin . It is the first of three modules, one at each level, in which the study of world cinema is developed through a focus on a particular region, its contribution to film history, and the relationships between cultural, political, and cinematic history.

 

Prerequisites/Co-requisites
None.
Module Aims

Aims:

 

·         To introduce analytical, historical, critical and contextual approaches to the study of film from various Latin American countries

 

 

·         To position representational strategy as a mode of critical thinking

 

·         cultivate a deep-rooted understanding of filmmaking in Latin America ;

·         equip her or him with a wide range of ideas and a vocabulary to talk and write about these modes of filmmaking with confidence;

·         show how the films are studied--thematic analysis--, and related to other art forms;

gain an understanding of these films' integral relationship to the Latin American social, economic, and political context.
Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module students should be able

 

·         to accurately relate and evaluate how films can be read as critical visual texts;

 

·         reflect critically on historical representation and contextualization in cinema;

 

·         have a clearer understanding of the history, culture, and socio-economic realities of Latin America .

 

Module Content

·         The module will consider the socio-cultural and historical valences of Latin American film production.

 

·         The module will examine how to read culture through filmic representative strategies

 

The module will enable students to use theoretical material related to identity politics (race, class, gender, sexuality, et. al) as well as themes such as exile, emigration, feminism, transnational, magical realism for filmic analysis
Methods of Teaching/Learning

11 Lecture/Seminars, web-based discussion groups, student-led discussions/presentations.

 

Selected Texts/Journals

Required reading:

 

 

Barnard, Tim and Peter Rist, eds. South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, 1915-1994. New York: Garland Pub, 1996.

 

Burns, E. Bradford. Latin American Cinema Film and History. UCLA Latin American Studies: V. 26: Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center , University of California , 1975.

 

Elena, Alberto and Marina Díaz Lopez (eds). The Cinema of Latin America . London : Wallflower Press, 2003.

 

 

King, John. Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America London : Verso, 1990; 2000.

 

 

King, John, Ana M. López and Manuel Alvarado, eds., Mediating Two Worlds: Cinematic Encounters in the . London : British Film Institute, 1993.

 

Martin, Michael T. (ed) The New Latin American Cinema, vols 1 and 2, Wayne State University Press, 1998.

 

Noriega, Chon A. Visible Nations: Latin American Cinema and Video. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

 

Pick, Zuzana. The New Latin American Cinema: A Continental Project. Austin: Texas UP, 1993.

 

Shaw, Deborah (ed). Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Breaking into the Global Market. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

 

Stevens, Donald Fithian, ed. Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies. Latin American Silhouettes. Wilmington : SR Books, 1997.

 

 

Selection of Films (Not limited to these):

 

Down Argentine Way (USA 1941)

 

Aventurera (Mexico 1945)

 

María Candelaria (Mexico 1943)

 

Danzón ( 1992)

Memories of Underdevelopment ( 1968)

Quilombo (Brazil 1984)

 

Viva Zapata (USA 1952)

 

Machuca (Chile 2004)

The Official Story ( 1985)

Camila ( 1984)

The Last Supper ( 1979)

María Full of Grace (Colombia 2003)

Strawberry and Chocolate ( 1995)

Los Olvidados (The Young and Damned) ( 1950)

City of God (Brazil 2006)

Last Updated
08/04/11.