Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Autumn Quarter 2009
• Winter Quarter 2010

Cynthia Steele
SPAN 487
Seattle Campus

Mexican Cinema

Analysis of representative films about post-revolutionary Mexico by directors from both the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (1940-1960) and the Mexican New Film movement (1975-the present). Revolutionary nationalism, modernization and its discontents; construction of gender, class and ethnicity; migration and globalization. Prerequisite: either SPAN 303, SPAN 316, or SPAN 330; SPAN 321; SPAN 322; either SPAN 304, SPAN 305, SPAN 306, SPAN 307, SPAN 308, SPAN 319, SPAN 339, SPAN 340, SPAN 350, SPAN 351, SPAN 352, or SPAN 376.

Class description

Professor Cynthia Steele cynthias@u.washington.edu Office: Padelford B-537 (206) 543-7542

Hours: MW 1-3 TTh 1:30-2:30 and by appointment

Student learning goals

General method of instruction

Lecture/discussion

Recommended preparation

Class assignments and grading

Weekly film viewings Weekly readings of history and criticism Midterm Quizes Final analytical essay

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