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| CRN | Type | Section | Time | Days | Location | Instructor |
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| 51283 | lecture | AV | 09:00 AM - 10:50 AM | M | room 145 Armory | Vivancos Alvarez, A |
| Literature and the Arts course. |
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| lecture | AV | 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | WF | room 145 Armory | Vivancos Alvarez, A | |
| Literature and the Arts course. |
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| 3 hours TOPIC: SPANISH CULTURE IN FILM: CONSTRUCTING CONTEMPORARY SPAIN. This course will be crosslisted with CINE 193. Monday class will meet from 9-10:50 for film screening. W & F meet from 10-10:50. What is "Spain"? A number of images and stereotypes inform a multifaceted collage that conform the international image of this country. This course will seek to build a more complex understanding of its cultures and contemporary issues. These will include questions like nationalisms, immigration, notions of gender and sexuality, the memory of the Civil War and the Franco regime, and the transition to a democratic government. To be able to analyze Spanish culture, we will work with films. We will also use scholarly articles that deal both with social and cinematic questions. Our aim will be not only to understand the construction of contemporary Spain, but to get tools that allow us to analyze cultural materials, and to be able to apply them critically both inside and outside the classroom. |
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| 51281 | lecture | ED | 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM | MWF | room 313 Davenport Hall | Dalle, E |
| Literature and the Arts course. |
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| 3 hours Topic: Freaks and Weirdoes: the politics of characterization. Course Description: This course examines novels, short stories, film, and drama from a variety of literary and historical traditions to understand how the role of a character, portrayed outside of an assumed normative, functions in the project of the overall text. What are the implications of writing a character against a perceived normality, what are the boundaries of alienation, and how does characterization enhance the textual project of the author? By approaching works in this manner, the course will discuss issues of ethnicity, politics, gender, and sexuality as well as engage existential questions regarding the psychoanalytic and the historical. We will read texts from known writers such as Fitzgerald, Freud, Faulkner, Lu Xun, Sartre, Vonnegut and screen films by Almod?var, Hitchcock, Jeunet, and Zhang Yimou. |
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