SPAN 4825

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SPAN 4825
The Architecture of Desire - Luis Bunuel and Film Theory

Course information provided by the 2014-2015 Catalog.

This course explores the films of renowned auteur Luis Buñuel in conjunction with different theories of film, aesthetics, and politics. Tracing his work from the inception of Surrealism to the final stage of his career in the late 1970s, the course proposes an in-depth study of the Buñuelian canon, placing his work in dialogue with contemporary debates on decadence, subjectivity, politics, desire, and sexuality. In addition to scholarship on Buñuel, we will read works by Kracauer, Deleuze, Tarkovsky, Theweleit, Ranciere, Mulvey, Eisenstein, Foucault, and Zizek.


Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Distribution Category (CA-AS)

When Offered Spring.

Comments Co-meets with SPAN 6820. Conducted in Spanish.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17785 SPAN 4825   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person