Syllabus
Syllabus Spanish 3386
Screen Memories: Spanish Culture Through Film
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT ENTIRELY IN SPANISH
COURSE SCHEDULE
Section 1: Social and Historical Revisions from the Franco Dictatorship
Aug 22 Introduction to the course. The Spanish Civil War and its Aftermath. Film as a tool for political indoctrination during the early years of the Franco Regime. Film: Marcelino, Pan y Vino (dir Ladislao Vajda 1954).
Aug 29 Opposition to the Regime / Neo-realism in Spanish Cinema. Film: Muerte de un ciclista (dir Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955)
Sept 5 Laughter as a Weapon for Political Dissent. Film: Bienvenido Mister Marshall (dir Luis García Berlanga 1953)
Sept 12 Spanish Film Breaks with the Past. Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (dir. Pedro Almodóvar, 1988)
Section 2: The Recuperation of Historical Memory in Democratic Spain
Sept 19 Documentaries. The Good Fight (dir. Mary Dore, Noel Buckner, Sam Sills, 1984) and El silencio de otros (dr. Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar, 2018)
Sept 26 Whitewashing the Past. Film: La niña de tus ojos (dir. Fernando Trueba, 1998)
Oct 3 Recuperating Forgotten Stories. La lengua de las mariposas (dir. José Luis Cuerda, 1999)
Must hand in at least 2 of the homework assignments by this date.
Oct 10 Fantasty vs. Historical accuracy. El laberinto del fauno (dir. Guillermo del Toro, 2006). El espíritu de la Colmena (dir. Victor Erice, 1973)
Section 3: Filming the Margins: Images of Women and Sexual Diversity
Oct 17 Art as therapy in cases of domestic violence. Te doy mis ojos (dir. Iciar Bollaín, 2003)
Oct 24 Living with the past. Volver (dir. Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)
Oct 31 Art and Identity. Film. Dolor y gloria (dir. Pedro Almodóvar, 2019)
Section 4: Contemporary Colonized Subjects
Nov 7 Questions of Immigration in Modern Spain, Flores de otro mundo (dir. Iciar Bollaín, 1999)
Nov 14 Spain’s Twentieth-Century Neo-Colonialism. Film. Sin dejar huella (dir. María Novaro, 2001)
Nov 21 The Legacies of Colonialism. Film. También la lluvia (dir. Iciar Bollaín, 2011)
Nov 28 Internal Colonization. Cultural differences within Spain. Film. Ocho Apellidos Vascos (dir. Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, 2014)
Monday Dec 4 Last day that I will accept homework assignments