SPN 448 - Trash and Transgression: Spanish Surrealism and Popular Culture in Dalí, Lorca and Buñuel

Course Units: 1

(Not offered 2014-15) This course studies the work of a group of young Spanish poets, playwrights, filmmakers and painters, generally known as the Group of ‘27, who constituted the most important Spanish renaissance of the last centuries, and which was broken abruptly by the Civil War of 1936. We will examine the popular roots of some of their works as well as some of their most distinct contributions to Surrealism, as exemplified by Bunuel’s cinematic innovation and its religious conflictions and repressed sexual longings. Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level courses. CC: HUL, LCCS