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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2021 |
Registration ID | SPANB252001 |
Course Title | Latin American Films |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies |
Instructor | Gaspar,MartÃn L. |
Times and Days | MTh 09:40am-11:00am
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Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1443 Stereotypically, Latin Americans are viewed as "emotional people"--often a euphemism to mean irrational, impulsive, wildly heroic, fickle. This course takes this expression at face value to ask: Are there particular emotions that identify Latin Americans? And, conversely, do these "people" become such because they share certain emotions? Can we find a correlation between emotions and political trajectories? To answer these questions, we will explore three types of films that seem to have, at different times, taken hold of the Latin American imagination and feelings: melodramas (1950s-1960s), documentaries (1970s-1990s), and "low-key" comedies (since 2000s.) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); |
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