HSP/COM6055-Latin American Cinema from the 1960s to the Present - 2020/21

This course offers an overview of Latin American cinema from the emergence of the continental ‘New Latin American Cinema’ movement of the 1960s and 1970s, through the no less innovative and radical national initiatives of the 1980s and 1990s, to the transnational film production of today. These cinematographic developments will be examined in close connection both with the various national contexts from which they stem, and with the artistic and ideological debates in which the films intervene. Students will learn about the filmmaking of directors such as, for example, Ciro Guerra, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Cuba); Alfonso Cuarón. The selection of filmmakers and films will very from year to year.