SPAN 4700

Film, Photography, Literature: Visualizing Contemporary Spain

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2015-2016 Catalog.

Designed to explore different visual representations of contemporary Spain through the threefold lens of cinematic, photographic, and literary perspectives.  Surveying various texts from the early 20th century to the present--Lorca, Buñuel, Tusquets, Saura, Fontcuberta, Espaliú, Martínez de Pisón, García Rodero, to name a few--the course explores the continuities and discontinuities in visualizing Spain's cultural landscapes and seeks to examine the relationship between the moving image, the still one, and the written word in and among those visualizations.  Readings, writing assignments, and class discussion are all conducted in Spanish.

Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

When Offered Spring.

Comments Conducted in Spanish.

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