Mexican Cinema: 20th and 21st Centuries

Catalog description

This course examines Mexican cinema from the first screenings in Mexico City to the most recent cinematic production. It concentrates on tendencies and movements vis-à-vis the cultural, literary, and aesthetic movements in 20th and 21st century Mexico. Special attention is given to the Golden Age cinema (1930-1950); Luis Buñuel’s innovation and experimentation in films; gender in the cinema of the rumberas or cabaret dancers; the impact of social movements on the cinema after the 1970s; the cinema of the 2000s and beyond; women filmmakers; and cinema of immigration, among others. In addition to the analysis of theoretical trends, film language, and terminology, this course also considers socio-political contexts as well as racial and sexual identities; ideologies and globalization in Mexico.