MLT 273 - Re-Viewing Spanish Cinema: From Dictators, Bullfighters and Flamenco to Nationalisms and Globalization

Course Units: 1

(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course examines the works of such well-known artists/filmmakers as Medem, Almodovar, Bigas Luna, de la Iglesia, Amenabar, among others, who often directly engage with questions of “Spanishness,” of the nature of regional and ethnic diversity and identities within Spain, and the place of these identities in the wider framework of filmmaking in Europe. Furthermore, it will also study popular cinema which has been successful in a national context under the Franco regime and since the coming of democracy in the 1970s. CC: HUM