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AIMS
- To provide students with the necessary tools to analyse elements of Latin-American culture and its representation within film, with particular reference to the end of the twentieth century in Argentina.
- More specifically, the course focuses on orientating students in the analysis of the relation between cinema, culture and conceptions of space in society, exploring the way in which the idea evolves in a community whose way of thinking and perceiving is more and more visually orientated.
- To introduce students to the multicultural and multidisciplinary analysis of a particular peripheral culture.
INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the module a student is expected to be able to do the following:
Module-specific skills:
Demonstrate advanced knowledge of a broad range of Argentinian films in relation to an idea of society and a particular notion of culture as visual culture. Achieve an understanding of the cultural context in which the chosen films can historically and socially be situated; demonstrate familiarity with an idea of society from a cultural point of view; demonstrate ability to employ the concept of visual culture within the specific context chosen. Offer a perspective in writing on how a particular culture could be built up around cinematographical ideas.
Discipline-specific skills:
Display a critical understanding of Argentinian films and cultural aspects; demonstrate an ability to explain Argentinian culture with reference to film; discuss the films analytically both in terms of context and textual analyses; engage with and evaluate the material discussed as well as existing criticism on the subject.
Personal and key skills:
Demonstrate advanced presentational skills, both written and oral; engage intelligently and courteously in group discussion and deploy reasoned arguments based on analysis of film and texts; identify the essential issues in subjects of discussion; achieve an informed independence of opinion. Adopt a critical approach to the selection and organisation of material in order to produce, to a deadline, a written or oral argument of the appropriate length.
LEARNING/TEACHING METHODS
Formal lectures supported by seminars based on guided discussion or presentations delivered by students.
ASSIGNMENTS
ASSESSMENT
One group presentation of 30 minutes (10%), 1,500 words of sequence analysis (15%), one essay of 4,500 words (75%)
SYLLABUS PLAN
[Film viewings and distribution of lectures subject to agreement with students]
Week 1 Introduction.
Week 2 ‘War and Cinema'
Week 3 ‘The Official Story' (La historia official, 1985)
Week 4 ‘War and Cinema'
Week 5 ‘The Dream of the Heroes' (El sueño de los heroes, 1997)
Week 6 ‘La machine de vision'
Week 7 Nueve Reinas (2002)
Week 8 ‘La machine de vision'
Week 9 The Art of ‘moto and engine'
Week 10 ‘Minimal Stories' (Historias minimas, 2001)
Week 11 The Domain of the Space and Vision
INDICATIVE BASIC READING LIST
Prescribed Texts
Finkielman, Jorge. The Film Industry in Argentina: An Illustrated Cultural History, London, McFarland & Company, 2003.
Foster, David William. Contemporary Argentine Cinema, Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1992.
Virilio, Paul, The Virilio Reader, Blackwell, London, 1998.
Basic Bibliography
Barnard, Tim, ed. Argentine Cinema. Toronto, Nightwood, 1986.
Ciria, Alberto. Más allá de la pantalla: cine argentino, historia y política, Buenos Aires, Ediciones de la Flor, 1995.
Castells, Manuel. The Information Age, London, Blackwell.
España, C./Fabbro, G. Cine argentino en democracia, 1983-1993, Buenos Aires, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, 1994.
Foster, David William. Culture and Customs of Argentina, London, Greenwood, 1998.
---. Buenos Aires, Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production, Florida, University Press of Florida, 1998.
King, John. Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America. London, Verso, 2000. 2nd Edition.
King and Torrents: John King and Nissa Torrents, eds. The Garden of Forking Paths: Argentine Cinema. London, British Film Institute, 1987.
Mahieu, José Agustín. ‘Cine argentino: las nuevas fronteras'. Cuadernos hispanoamericanos 517-19 (julio-septiembre 1993): 289-304.
---. ‘Diez años de cine latinoamericano'. Cuadernos hispanoamericanos 484 (octubre 1990): 39-48.
Newman, Kathleen. ‘Cultural Redemocratization: Argentina, 1978-89'. On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture. Eds. George Yúdice, Jean Franco and Juan Flores (Social Text Collective). Cultural Politics #4. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1992. 161-85.
Pick, Zuzana M. The New Latin American Cinema: A Continental Project. Texas Film Studies Series. Texas, University of Texas Press, 1993.
Reati, Fernando. ‘Argentine Political Violence and Artistic Representation in Films of the 1980's'. Latin American Literary Review 17.34 (July-Dec. 1989): 24-39.
Schumann, Peter B. Historia del cine latinoamericano. Buenos Aires, Editorial Legasa, 1987 (Trad. Oscar Zambrano. Cine Libre #5).
Simpson and Bennett: John Simpson and Jana Bennett. The Disappeared: Voices from a Secret War. London, Robson Books, 1985.
Thompson, Currie K. ‘Against All Odds: Argentine Cinema, 1976-1991'. Post Script 11.3 (Summer 1992): 32-45.
A full bibliography will be supplied within a dossier for the course at the beginning of the module.
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