This module (open to all Level 3 students in any MLAC programme, including VAF, with the Spanish language pre- and co-requisites specified in the Faculty Handbook) is taught in English in the ‘short-fat’ format in the Michaelmas term only (weekly two-hour lectures and one weekly one- hour seminar). It covers aspects of 20th and 21st century Spanish History and Culture with specific focus in cinema but in the wider context of pre- and post-Franco Spanish society, history and politics. Students will become familiar with important issues such as national stereotypes, contested national identities within Spain, Iberian Identity, European integration, violence, trauma, race, immigration and changing gender and sexual identities, as well as relevant concepts in Film Studies such as cinematic genre, spectatorship, sound, editing and the star system. The module will focus on up to ten key, classic Spanish films of the last 80 years or so, from García Berlanga, Buñuel or Miró to Almodóvar, Bigas Luna or Bollaín.
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Coordinators: Professor Rosi Song (weeks 1-5) and Professor Santiago Fouz-Hernández (weeks 6-10)
Further details of pre-requisites, co-requisites, aims, contact hours and assessment.