Course Description: This course will examine the multiple ways that Hispanic and Brazilian filmmakers have seen Hispanic world, its people, religious beliefs and cultures for more than a century. This course provides the student with a range of perspectives on cultural developments in Spain, Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean from the colonial to the modern period, using critical and literary texts as well as films. Taught in English.
Course Narrative: This course Span 325 was really interesting on how we needed to identify and describe films from Latin America with a broad overview of its historic development from the 20th-21st centuries. I was able to describe and write about the film genres studied throughout the course, identifying and describing the historical context of each film. In this class we did essays, critical analysis of every film watched and a presentation of one film we found interesting. In addition this class taught me and gave me a different perspective on how Latin American people live, always fighting for their benefit and how most of the governments took advantage of their poverty. This class was so interesting that it showed a lot of symbols such as natural disasters, discrimination, social status, gender roles represented on how women are less than boys and how women have an image of sexual attraction/desire. To conclude, I was able to do an essay about a film I found interesting and important so I choose Even the rain which is about the doubts about the issues around the world that we don’t really value and how selfish the government can be with his people.