FS-06 Gender Views in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Cinema
This course explores gender representations (ranging from feminist perspectives, gender performances, or the theory and practice of female writing, to questions of sexual identity, patterns of masculinity and queer theory) within the Spanish literature and cinema produced during the last three decades. Besides analyzing a selection of works by the most representative authors who form part of the contemporary literary panorama in Spain, students will also examine the different critical paradigms and theories within the field of gender and sexuality studies and how they are formulated within a range of cultural texts and contexts.
FS-19 The Image of Spain through Film and Digital Fiction
This course provides students with a route-map through those Spanish movies, as well as those from other countries, which deal with the image of Spain from different perspectives. There have been times when that same image has become distorded for reasons which are not, stricklyspeaking, cinematographic in character. Bringing to the fore the key aspects of that distorsion, while analysing a range of discourse types in film, can help bring into focus the role of Cinema as a generator of cultural stereotypes.