Spanish 340TW - Advanced Studies in Visual Cultures: 'Translating Words into Images: The Interaction of Film and Literary Texts Contemporary Latin America'

In this course, we will examine the interaction of film and literary texts in the context of contemporary Latin American cultural production. We will analyze what happens when a variety of short stories, novels, or plays are made into a film and how the reception changes; what are the techniques to create a dialogue between film and literary texts in their own contexts; how we view and read these texts and how the difference in the register affects our perceptions of a character, an event or a location; how words are translated into images and how adaptations re-create the stories. Zama by Lucrecia Martel, XXY by Lucia Puenzo, Cidade de Deus by Fernando Meirelles are part of the corpus.

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