CMS 597 A: Special Topics In Cinema And Media Studies

This course examines the construction of the Spanish nation in the context of cinematic production stretching from the silent era to the present day. We will interrogate common assumptions regarding Spain’s uneven experience of modernity, at the same time as we consider and complicate the canonical periodization of Spanish cinema. Topics will include: “Las dos Españas, or the two Spains; childhood and the Franco dictatorship; the decadence of Iberian machismo; the culture of crisis; and Spanish responses to immigration and globalization.