CIME 175 - Modern Latin American Cinema

FC ARHU CD

4 credits
An overview of the cinemas of Latin America from 1950 to the present, with special emphasis on the revolutionary generation of the 1960s and contemporary cinema. Each week a significant Latin American film will be discussed in relation to aesthetic movements, social history, and political change. Subjects to be explored include the cinema of poverty, Cinema Novo, Third Cinema, the memory of dictatorship, and the poetics of globalization. An abiding concern will be the relationship of film art to social activism.

This course is appropriate for new students.