SPN 433 - Latin American Colonial Crossroads at the Movies

Course Units: 1.0

(TBD: Staff) This course explores critically filmic approaches to colonial Latin American literature and history. Its main objectives are to analyze films preoccupied with historical events and life in colonial times, to engage the filmic representation of the cultural, political, and religious encounters and tensions informing our desire to revisit contact among Amerindians, African slaves and Europeans, and to familiarize students with debates pertaining to reconstructing the colonial past for contemporary consumption. Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level courses. CC: LCCS, HUM