- Cine Latino: Latin America in and on Film

Catalog description

An interdisciplinary examination of how Latin America and its peoples and cultures have been represented in films throughout the 20th century. Students will examine how Latin American filmmakers depict the complexity and cultural richness of the region using innovative and expansive storytelling, and how ideas of "Latin Americanness" are expressed by non-Latino filmmakers, including documentarians. Topics include social realism, indigenous identity, and how films can challenge political regimes and constructions of nationalism. Students will develop media literacy and an understanding of the frameworks that have shaped the social, ideological, and historical trajectory of much of the Western Hemisphere.