Hoy fue la primera vez que miré una película en español, entonces veremos cuanto entendí. La historia fue relativalmente simple. Esta película tiene aspectos tipícos de una comedia musical. Cosas tragícas, como un bebe abandonado, es horible. No hay un proceso compleja cuando el hombre que no han visto su padre por muchos años le encontra. No hay confusion, preguntas, o dudo, solamente alegría. Pero los connotaciones de estos eventos no sean importante, solo el evento.
Las tres personas crecían en un asilo de monjas – pero se escapían cuando sean niños. Sin embargo, pueden trabajar mucho y tener éxito en sus vidas como artistas. Tal vez es una relexíon de la vida en Mexíco en la epoca de los años 30s; sí una persona tiene recursos y puede trabajar con estos, puede tener exíto. Tal vez, es la verdad en todo los países. Es difícil de decir cual aspectos de la película reflejan “Mexíco”…especialmente en 1938. ¿Se ven personas en Mexíco en los personajes del filmo? No soy suficiente familiar con Mexíco para preguntar es

Una otra pregunta que tiene sobre la historia es, ¿porque el padre de hijo quiere encontrarlo después de abandonarlo?

El artículo sobre los cinemas en Mexíco destaca la historia del cinema en Mexíco. Pienso que es interestante que haya diferencias entre las clases de la sociedad y los cines. No realizó que es tan importante de pensar sobre la audiencia.

Normalmente, no me gusta películas tan viejas, pero pienso que Aguila o sol es divertida. Porque es una historia muy simple, pienso que es posible de pensar a los procesos de la sociedad que están representados, porque están tan general que pueden aplicar a la vida de toda la audiencia.

La pelicula Aguila o Sol fue estrenada en el ano de 1937, el cual pertence a la llamada edad de oro del cine Mexicano. Algunos elementos mencionadoes por Noble sobre el cine mexicano de esta epoca se evidencian en la pelicula. Por ejemplo, la importancia simbolica de las mujeres, la apelacion a la identidad mexicana y las diferencias sociales entre los mexicanos.

Adriana representa la mujer perfecta. Ellas es buena, bonita y fiel a sus sentimientos. Como discutimos en clase ella mantiene el orden. Ademas ella es el centro de atencion en la pelicula por su carisma y su talento. Es interesante que muchas de las canciones revelan diferentes aspectos de mexico, hay una cancion folklorica, una mas tropical (el cabaret), hay tango, hay bolero y hay un poco de flamenco. Me parece que la condicion humilde de los protagonistas forma parte del intento del director por acercarse a la audiencia mexicana de clase media.

En general me parece que el objetivo principal de esta pelicula es entretener y que lo mas importante son los segmentos donde se presenta la musica, el baile y el teatro. Me parece interesante que la pelicula trate de representar algo que podria verse individualmente como los skits de los dos amigos. Lei un poco en internet acerca del fil y encontre que aguila o sol traduce al ingles “tails or heads” y que los apellidos de Polito y Carmelo eran Sol y Aguila respectivamente. Me parecio interesante porque solo en el sueno vi la exclusion que la particula o implica, entre los dos amigos. Siempre estuvieron juntos y asi permanecioron hasta el fin de la pelicula.

Trying to define culture can be a very hard task because I guess nobody really knows what it is. Everybody has a different definition for culture and so to come up with a precise definition of culture would be someting very difficult. From the first reading by Williams I liked how he said that culture is “ordinary” and that it is everywhere and not only in museums or teashops or elite schools or as being part only of high education. Culture is ordinary. Everybody has a different definition to what culture is.

I liked more the second reading as it was more about anthropology. Last semester I took a class about anthropology in Latin America and we were taught how anthropologists would go there and do their research, some of them already with preconceived notions which were mostly negative, some labelling these cultures as “primitve” ones. Also I got to see how this anthropologists had a role in shaping outsiders views about these cultures and how they can help these cultures in their different struggles. Anyway, what I liked most about this reading was Keesing’s radical alterity notion. I would agree with Jean Sebastien when he said that most people ditinguishes themselves from others in order to find the uniqueness of their own culture. When I go on trips and later come back I can’t help but to compare and think of the differences that I or my culture has with others. I guess it’s just natural for us to do this.

Hi, My name is Carolina. I am a third year Biochemistry major. I am an international student from Colombia. I am really not sure about what I want to do with my life becuase I really like science and literature and I have not been able to find a way to do both. I am really exited about this course and I hope to learn something.

Hi everyone,
My name is Max, I’m a third year student doing a double major in geography and spanish. I’ve never taken a film course before, so I’m looking forward to this class to expand my horizon.

I grew up in Montreal, lived in Toronto and finished high school in Philadelphia, and now live in Vancouver.

When i decided to take this class i did not know i would enjoy it so much, the readings were all enjoyable (except for marti) but all the reading were unique, the one i enjoyed the most was sandra cisnieros. Being a immigrant from a Latin American country i was able to relate and understand a lot of the stories and also compare how different it is for different people the experience of immigrating to a new country. this class has made me think more of my own experience and and how i have reacted. I really liked this class 🙂

As a Language major, the number of English literature classes I can take is limited and I already took them all last year! I am glad that this course did not fall under the same category. I enjoyed being in this class!

Who Would Have Thought It? almost scared me away but I ended up writing about it for Wikipedia and reading a lot of the critiques gave me a sense of appreciation of Ruiz de Burton’s work. Sometimes, when I edit the article on Wikipedia, I feel somewhat of an anonymity that I think Ruiz de Burton initially wanted. Maria Ruiz de Burton would use Mrs. Henry S. Burton in the publication of her books and we use different names to sign into Wikipedia.

As I was writing on the book’s portrayal of religion and how it was used to distinguish Lola from the Irish Catholics, I realized that Alvarez too finds the need to distinguish the girls from the Irish population. Although this course is about Chicana identity, reading the novels gave me a sense of an overall immigrant experience.

There seems to be a lot of motivation for immigration as well such as the constant renegotiation of the demarcation of borders in Who Would Have Thought It? the harvest in … y no se lo trago la tierra, political motivations in El Puente de Brooklyn, marriage in Woman Hollering Creek and Pinochet’s dictatorship in and a Body to Remember With

I think it was such a treat to have Carmen Rodriguez come and talk about and a Body to remember with and share her insights on why a writer chooses to write a work of fiction instead of an autobiography.

It has a been a jolly good run, and I think that this class was the most intriguing and hands-on I’ve experienced at this institute of humanitarian holiness. The debates were heated, the participants were enthusiastic, and the relatively unswingable Swingspace began to oscillate like an overweight Cuban in a hammock! From the eloquence of Burton to the bloodiness of Cisneros, we experienced an array of literature that evoked every emotion from boredom to borderline insanity.

The wikipedia project was one of special importance to me, for I have used the tool before so in such a self-centered fashion that it felt only necessary that I give back to the community, even though the GA reviewers can be pretentious, but they damn well should, those selfless cats.

The class became increasingly sexy during our discussions in Spanish, where the language rebounded off the walls in a way I hadn’t experienced before in my dreary grammatical Spanish classes in the past.

Latin America now is given a new life in my eyes, as before it was almost just an area on the map, but now I’m able to comprehend the difficulties and the beauty of life there. Most of all, I’m impressed with the intellect with our class, everyone raised interesting points and shared points of view that contrasted with everyone else’s, and I’m grateful to have experienced a class where participation is encouraged rather than discouraged, which often times it is.

Identity was covered in great detail, from so many perspectives that I myself am confused as to what I am, except a white male born in Canada. In a way, I’m envious of Latino strong sense of being something, or even having a struggle in deciding what they are.

Ah! term is almost done!