MLT 286T - Gender and Identity in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Course Units: 1.0

This course offers an interdisciplinary study of contemporary Latin American cinema focusing on issues of representation, reception and spectatorship, and the construction of (national, cultural, gender, and racial) identity. Besides the films, reviews and substantive readings will contribute to an examination of five main topics: 1) Constructions of Gender; 2) Representations of National Identity; 3) Race and Class; 4) Queer Images; and, 5) Imagining Marginality. All films studied in class will link two or more of these topics. CC: HUM, LCC ISP: FLM, GSWS, LAS