Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Intermediate

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of two semesters (or three quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

PANORAMA OF SPANISH CINEMA

1. Introduction: Brief History of Spanish Cinema Prior to the 90’s
• Spanish cinema during the Franco regime and its genres
• Dissident/heretical cinema
• Cinema in the era of development
• Cinema of the transition
• Cinema of the theme, “Ley Miró”

2. Spanish Cinema from the 90’s to Today
• The situation of Spanish cinema
• New producers
• Survival of the autorist cinema
• Almodóvar and Amenábar
• The decade of the female directors
• New approaches to the cinema genre
• Obsessions of the Spanish cinema
• Influences of other cinematographers on Spanish cinema
• The “crisis de lo real”
• The height of documentaries in Spain
• Short films in Spain