Portuguese 202 - YOUTH IN BRAZILIAN FILM

Fall
2019
01
4.00
Marguerite Harrison
MW 01:20-02:35
Smith College
10763-F19
SEELYE 311
mharriso@smith.edu
This course will serve as an introduction in English to Brazilian Cinema through the theme of youth, identity, social barriers, and a search for belonging. Course materials, films and class discussions will address such topics as migration, belonging and displacement, coming-of-age challenges, discovery and adversity, self, society and sexuality, family and loss. Selected readings and screenings will highlight the work of Brazilian filmmakers such as Walter Salles, Ana Muylaert, Sandra Kogut, Fernando Meirelles, and others. Student assignments will encompass both critical and first-person memoir essays; students may also respond via work-and-image production (videos; digital narratives; and comics. Taught in English.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.