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

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This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six 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.

OBJECTIVES

This Course aims to provide an overview of what Cinema in Spain, since its origins until the present day, has meant and continues to signify. In a synthesized way, a series of sections will be developed based on the key landmarks which contribute to our understanding of the nature and characteristics of Spanish Cinema from the perspectives of authorship, genre, and factors involved in production.
The practical back-up for each section will consist of the showing of a movie so as to ensure clarification of the subject-matter dealt with in class sessions and to stimulate debate and dialogue amongst the participants taking the Course.

SYLLABUS

I. Origins: The Silent Era.
II. The Thirties: Sound and the Reaching of Maturity.
III. An Universal Creative Figure: Luis Buñuel.
IV. The Forties: Cinema in an Autocratic Regime.
V. The Fifties: The First Signs of Renovation.
VI. The Sixties: The "New Spanish Cinema".
VII. The Seventies: Renewal in the Cinema and the Figure of the Auteur.
VIII. The Eighties: Cinema within Democracy.

ASSESSMENT

The following will be taken into account with regard to grading:
1. An assignment related to syllabus content.
2. An examination during the final week of the semester.

BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

General

SEVERAL AUTHORS: Historia universal del cine. Ed. Planeta, Barcelona, 1969.
JEANNE, R., and FORD, C: Historia Ilustrada del Cine. Ed. Alianza, Madrid, 1993. (3 volumes)
GUBERN, R.: Historia de cine. Ed. Dnae, Barcelona, 1969. (2 volumes)

Specific

SEVERAL AUTHORS: El Cine y la Transición Política Española. Ed. Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia, 1986.
CAPARRÓS, J.M.: El Cine Español y la Democracia. Ed. Anthropos, Barcelona, 1992.
CASTRO, A.: El Cine Español en el Banquillo. Ed. Fernando Torres, Valencia, 1974.
FONT, D.: Del Azul al Verde. El Cine Español durante el Franquismo. Ed. Avance, 1976.
GARCÍA FERNÁNDEZ, E.: Historia Ilustrada del Cine Español. Ed. Planeta, Barcelona, 1985.
GÓMEZ BENÍTEZ DE CASTRO, R.: Evolución e la Producción Cinematográfica Española, 1975-1988. Ed. Mensajero, Bilbao, 1988.
HOPEWEEL, J.: El Cine Español después de Franco. Ed. Arquero, Madrid, 1989.
MERINO, A.: Diccionario de Directores de Cine Español. Ed. J.C., Madrid, 1994.
MONTERDE, J.E.: Veinte Años de Cine Español. Ed. J.C., Madrid, 1994.
PÉREZ GÓMEZ, A., and MARTÍNEZ MONTALBÁN, J.L.: Cine Español 1951-1978. Ed. Mensajero, Bilbao, 1979.
UTRERA MACÍAS, R.: Literatura Cinematográfica. Cinematografía Literaria. Ed. Alfar, Sevilla, 1987.
VILLEGAS, M.: Aquel Llamado Nuevo Cine Español. Ed. J.C., Madrid, 1993.