FF:FAV141 Cinema of Latin America:semin. - Course Information
FAV141 Cinema of Latin America: seminar
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2008
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/3. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Jaromír Blažejovský, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Thu 10:00–12:25 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 seminar focuses on formal and contextual analysis and interpretation (from ideological and gender points of view) of selected films from Latin America. We will study their cultural specifics, reflections of social, ethnic and politic problems and questions of machismo. At the end of this course, students should be able to: analyze selected audiovisual works; make their intepretation; present their findings to an audience.
- Syllabus
- Lombardi, Francisco: Caídos del cielo (1990); Llosa, Claudia: Madeinusa (2006); Kalatozov, Michail: Soy Cuba (1964); Dos Santos, Nelson Pereira: Vidas secas (1963); Rocha, Glauber: Deus e o diabo na terra do sol (1964), Terra em transe (1967) Babenco, Hector: Pixote (1981) Gutiérrez Alea, Tomás: La muerte de un burocrata (1966), Memorias del subdesarollo (1967); Goméz, Manuel Octavio: Los dias del agua (1971); Barnet, Enrique Pineda: La bella del Alhambra (1990); Giral, Sergio: María Antonia (1991)
- Literature
- CHANAN, Michael. Cuban cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004, xvii, 538. ISBN 9780816634248. 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
- The cycle of screenings and presentations, including three full day projections in National film archive in Prague. Credit: the presentation of a film, translantion or an essay.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
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