Spanish 591V - S-Videographic Criticism

This course examines embodiment as a mode of production, theory, thinking, and feeling in videographic criticism. Grounded in practice-based learning, students explore the different (animate and inanimate) bodies involved in the production and consumption of media. They will experiment with audiovisual forms as a way of thinking through and with these bodies, developing original videographic work through a series of exercises and a final project that uses embodiment as a method of critique. Each student will select one media object from Iberian or Latin American cinemas, including lusophone and indigenous film productions. Students will engage with their chosen object critically, bodily, haptically, and emotionally, drawing on frameworks such as affect theory, phenomenology, haptic visuality, sensory ethnography, or embodied spectatorship. They will present their media object and exercises to the class, contributing to a shared corpus that serves as the foundation for a collective exploration of embodiment. The class will include two sessions of hands-on training in Adobe Premiere, the industry-standard video editing software. No previous knowledge of Adobe Premiere is required