FF:FAV140 Cinema of Latin America - Course Information
FAV140 Cinema of Latin America
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2008
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Jaromír Blažejovský, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Tue 18:20–20:45 C34, Wed 15:00–20:45 C34
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 25 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The curse is focused mainly on films from Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Cuba: the film industries which have been able to produce feature films regularly. We will take notice of works of Chilean directors and take a look at the cinema of Peru and Bolivia. The relationship between cinema and revolution will be discussed as well as manifestos of Latin American filmmakers. Films: Dos Santos, Nelson Pereira: Vidas secas (1963), Como era gostoso o meu Frances (1971); Fernandéz, Emilio: María Candelaria (1944); Goméz, Manuel Octavio: La primera carga al machete (1969), Los dias del agua (1971); Guerra, Ruy: Os fuzis (Pušky, 1964); Gutiérrez Alea, Tomás: La muerte de un burocrata (1966), Memorias del subdesarollo (1967), La ultima cena (1976), Fresa y chocolate (1993); Littín, Miguel: Actas de Marusia (1975), El recurso del método (1978), La viuda de Montiel (1979), Alsino y el Condor (1982); Pérez, Fernando: La vida es silbar (1998); Reygadas, Carlos: Batalla en el cielo (2005); Rocha, Glauber: Barravento (1962), Deus e o diabo na terra do sol (1964), Terra em transe (1967), Antonio das Mortes (1969); Sanjinés, Jorge: Yawar Mallku (1969), El enemigo principal (1974); Solás, Humberto: Manuela (1966), Lucía (1969), Cecília (1982) etc. Main objectives can be summarized as follows: to experience the films from Latin America as a spectator; to know the „canon“ of most important films and their relationship to politial and socal reality of the continent.
- Syllabus
- Introduction into the cinema of Latin America
- Mexican cinema
- Brazilian cinema novo
- Argentinian cinema
- The manifests: The Aesthetics of Hunger, Toward a third cinema, For an imperfect cinema
- Cuban cinema
- The cinema of Bolivia and Peru
- Chilean cinema
- Literature
- CHANAN, Michael. Cuban cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004, xvii, 538. ISBN 9780816634248. info
- SHAW, Deborah. Contemporary cinema of Latin America : ten key films. New York: Continuum, 2003, ix, 206. ISBN 0826414850. info
- Rethinking Third Cinema. Edited by Anthony R. Guneratne - Wimal Dissanayake. 1st pub. New York: Routledge, 2003, xii, 240. ISBN 0415213541. info
- KING, John. Magical reels : the history of cinema in Latin America. New York: Verso, 2000, vi, 314. ISBN 185984233X. info
- Assessment methods
- Lectures, film screenings, reading. Written test. Colloquium: the annotated filmography of 4 films for the discussion.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
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- Study Materials
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