Spanish 340GZ - The Female Gaze in Latin Am.

This course addresses different ways in which women see the world and create worlds and experiences through filmmaking in Latin America. What role do women directors play in contemporary Latin American culture? How can feminist theoretical frameworks shape an understanding of the topics and forms in circulation? How do the affective labor issues regarding the film industry affect the women as film creators? With a focus on feature films directed by women working in diverse national and regional contexts, this course looks at female authorship and feminist aesthetics, Latin American cultural studies, postcolonial and subaltern studies, human rights, social movements and transnational politics in their interaction with films as discourses and practices that creates new ways of looking at and understanding the continent. We will focus specifically in the ways in which these directors/films address issues of gender identities, sexual orientation, intersectionality, the relation between culture- embodiment-senses, borders between the human, the animal and the monster.

Prereq: Two courses in Spanish at the 200-level above SPAN-212.