AP/SP 2880 6.00

(Re)Viewing Latin America: Film, Television, and Digital Media since 1950

This course introduces students to the debates that are currently redefining Latin America, including disputes about racial and sexual categories of differentiation, state-sponsored violence, the impact of extractive economies, women’s rights, or a new understanding of our relationship to the natural world. This course uses recent films, television series, and documentaries to examine the intersection between social imaginaries, cultural practices, and Latin America’s uneven and conflicted version of modernity. Taught in English.