ࡱ> ?A>a q jbjb,, :NNU444444484H,((,R4 44   44 HD,4444  744t O0(W,~ ~ 4DHaverford College Department of History 2007 James Krippner Hall 215 896-1049 (office) Office Hours: Wednesdays, 10:00-12:00. And by appt. History 317b: Visions of Mexico Course Description This course investigates representations of Mexico and Mexicanidad (Mexcianness, or Mexican identity), with an emphasis on the history of images and visual culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. Our goal is to appreciate but move beyond art history in order to understand the social, cultural and historical factors that construct and are preserved in visual images representing modern Mexico, as well as our responses to them. This is the basic orientation of the course. However, it has been designed to be as inclusive as possible and students are encouraged to participate actively in all aspects of the course. The class will be conducted as a seminar, with heavy emphasis on student discussion and research. Although it involves extensive reading and hard work, we will have some fun while we learn. In addition to providing a comprehensive introduction to the seminar topic, this course will develop your abilities in research as well as written and oral expression. Thus, you will learn or polish skills that will be essential in your future intellectual and professional development. Recommended Text Debroise, Olivier. Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico. Translated and Revised in Collaboration with the Author by Stella de S Rego. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. This is an excellent though quite expensive reference source. However, it will be read throughout the semester and thus can be used on reserve and consulted as needed. I will try to place two copies on reserve. Required Texts The following texts are available for purchase at the Haverford College bookstore, and have been placed on reserve at Magill Library. They are listed in the order they will be used in the class. Delpar, Helen. The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican: Cultural Relations Between the United States and Mexico, 1920-1935. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1995. Gallo, Rubn. New Tendencies in Mexican Art: The 1990s. Palgrave MacMillan: New York, 2004. Other sources listed will be provided to students in class or placed on blackboard reserve. Schedule UNIT I: TERMS, CONCEPTS AND HISTORIES Week 1 Introduction. 1/24 W Hand out syllabus, discuss course. Week 2. Orientations: Defining Lo Mexicano. 1/31 W Readings: 1. The Search For Lo Mexicano. Chapt. In The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics, 9-54. Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. 2. Garca Canclini, Nstor. The Future of the Past. Chapt. In Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity, 107-144. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. Week 3. Traces of the Past: Antiquity and The Baroque. 2/7 W Reading:. 1. Debroise, preliminary materials, Chapt 1, 3-15. 2. Debroise, Chapt. 6, 87-105. Chapt. 7, 108-111. Week 4 Nineteenth-Century Images. 2/14 W Reading: 1. Widdifield, Stacie G. The Embodiment of the National in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexican Painting. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996, Chapts. 1-2, 14-77 2. Debroise Chapt 2, 18-23; Chapt. 5, 73-85. Week 5 Posada, Popular Culture and the Emergence of Photography 2/21 W Reading: 1. Frank, Patrick. Posada and the Cultural Politics of Bullfighting. Chapt. in Posadas Broadsheets: Mexican Popular Imagery, 1890-1910, 128-165. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. 2. Gretton, Thomas. Posada and the Popular: Commodities and Social Constructs in Mexico Before the Revolution, Oxford Art Journal 17:2 (1994), 32-47. 3. Debroise, Chapt. 3, 25-53. UNIT II. THE REVOLUTION AND AFTER. Week 6 Consuming the Revolution 2/28 W Reading: Delpar, 85-124. Week 7 The Revolution on Film. 3/7 W Reading: Delpar, 125-208. Debroise, Chapt. 9, 163-199. Week 8 Enjoy Fall Vacation!. Week 9 The National, the Picturesque and Mexican Realities. 3/21 W Reading: 1. Mraz, John. Envisioning Mexico: Photography and National Identity. Working Paper #32. Durham and Chapel Hill: Duke-University of North Carolina Program in Latin American Studies, 2001. 2. Poole, Deborah. An Image of Our Indian: Type Photographs and Racial Sentiments in Oaxaca, 1920-1940. Hispanic American Historical Review, 84:1 (February 2004), 37-82. 3. 3. Debroise, Chapt. 4, 55-71; Chapt. 8, 113-161. Week 10 Photographic Modernism (and Postmodernism) in Mexico. 3/28 W Reading: 1. Debroise, Chapt. 10, 201-232. Chapt. 11, 233-245. Video: Tina in Mexico. Gerda Film Productions Inc.; produced in association with Bravo! Canada and Fashion Television and TV Ontario. Producers: David McIntosh, Brenda Longfellow and Normahilda Castanares-Lopez, 2002 (60 mins.) Week 11 Recent Trends in the Arts and Visual Culture. 4/4 W Reading: 1. Gallo. UNIT III. RESEARCH UNIT. Week 12 Frida, in Her Time and Ours. 4/11 W Students should hand in a two-page paper proposal. Reading: Lindauer, Margaret A. Fetishizing Frida. Chapt. In Devouring Frida: The Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida Kahlo, 150-179. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1999. Week 13: Strand in Mexico. 4/18 W Strand in Mexico, 1932-34. Faculty Research Presentation. Reading: Professor Krippners work in progress. Week 14: Zapatistas and Documentary Filmmaking. 4/25 W. Video: A Place Called Chiapas: A Film. By Nettie Wild; Produced by Canada Wild Productions Ltd. in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Produced by Nettie wild, Kirk Tougas, Betsey Carson; written by Nettie Wild, Manfred Becker. Rough draft due by Friday 4 p.m. in Hall 101. Week 15: Panel Presentations. 5/2 W Students will make formal presentations of their research and receive written comments on the rough drafts of their papers. Final drafts are due no later than Saturday, May 12, 5 p.m. for seniors, Friday, May 18, 12 noon, for everyone else. Course Requirements The course requirements are as follows: Class participation. This includes one pg. summaries of the assigned readings submitted electronically via Blackboard by 12 noon on Wednesdays prior to class, discussion and the timely completion of course assignments (25 pts. toward final grade). One intermediate length paper (6-8 pgs., with normal fonts and margins, 25 pts each towards final grade). One long final paper ((15-20 pgs., 50 pts. toward your final grade). Students are always encouraged to make two hard copies of their required written work! 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