New Latin American Cinemas

Subject guarantor:

Jitka HEJTMANOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Jitka HEJTMANOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Brief but first-hand insight into Latin America Cinema of past and today.

Mode of study:

Module, discussion, projections

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Recommended optional programme components:

None

Course contents:

Module by Jorge Iglesias

Thanks to its thematic and stylistic diversity, the current Latin American cinema is characterized by a very contemporary use of film language, and its integration to a very creative international community of films and authors.

What is new in today´s New Latin American Cinema? Is it pertinent to use a term applied in the 60's, like in other places of the world, to a group of films of young film makers (leaded by French New Wave)?The module will be dedicated to link the New Latin American Cinema of the 60's and the current (New) Latin American Cinema, and to show what was a coincidence of aesthetic and political avant-garde in that decade reappears today with other clothing and strategies. The representation of the reality in the cinema of the 60's by an aesthetic and political radicalism will be analyzed, with emphasis in the Brazilian cinema, and the bloom of the documentary and its relationship with fiction. The other part of the day will be dedicated to some characteristics of the contemporary Latin American cinema and its experimentation with devices opposed to the mainstream, as well as the employment of space and time and its relationship with montage.

The film that I would to show is Heli (Mexico, 2013), winner of the Prize to the Best Direction of the Festival of Cannes.

Recommended or required reading:

None

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

None

Assessment methods and criteria:

100% attendance, discussion and moderated Q adn A

Course web page:

Note:

Mr. Iglesias: http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wcc/jorge-iglesias-vazquez/view

prof. Jorge Yglesias, film historian and poet, head of dept. of humanities at International school of film and TV at San Antonio de Los Baňos in Cuba.

Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
14.03.2014		09:30–17:00	HEJTMANOVÁ J.		in English, 311, Editing department	paralelka 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans: