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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 importanc…

“Aguila o sol” representa las cosas que tememos y se burla de la sociedad mexicana de los 30. Cantiflas fue uno de los comicos mas famosos del mundo hispano, y sigue siendo una leyenda hasta ahora. En una de sus primera películas, Aguila o S…

Hola! My name is Marianne and I am a third year English Literature student. I am also very bad with computers (Ipods hate me and my computer cries at night) so this is my second attempt at posting my introduction. Perhaps I should have saved it, but us…

Hello everyone! my name is Yuhan and I am a fourth year student. I study both Spanish and English. I moved to Canada when I was in grade 7. I am taking Spanish because I love to travel. When I was younger, I also wanted to be a translator too. However,…

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…

AND MY NAME IS DEVIN.
I forgot. 

4th year Film Studies Major.
Moved to Seville, Spain at the age of 3, then moved away to live in Canada at 7.
Used to speak spanish but lost the language completely.
Hoping some films might spark that trapped knowledge.
Yeah yeah yeah.

So, this is round two with this blog. Please ignore any previous entries, they’re all from SPAN312.My name is Rose Finn, and I’m from Portland, Oregon. I’m a creative writing major, but I’m looking into a Spanish minor, because I’ve been taking Spanish…

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 …

The Gringo in MañanalandEl título de esta película me parece importante. Propongo que la palabra spanglesa (o ‘spanglish’ en inglés) ‘Mañanaland’ tiene algo que ver con la idea de ‘Never-Neverland’ que sabemos de Peter Pan. Never-Never…

My name is Jordi and I am currently a 2nd year student at UBC.I am pursuing a BA in arts majoring in Spanish.

My name is Alyssa Satterwhite.  I was born and lived most of my life in Portland, Oregon (yes, one of three Portlanders in the class…) I am a twin, which too many people seem to think is extremely interesting… asking “What is it like to be a twin?”.  Word to the wise: don’t bother asking […]

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I tried to set up a blog in Live Journal, but it wouldn’t let me put long titles in my favorite music of interests. So this is about me:My name is Mario Fasce. I was born January 5th. I am a second year Arts students that is going to major in Film, psy…

We’re supposed to introduce ourselves…and I don’t really know what to write…My name is Elena, and I’m a music and Spanish major. I guess I’m interested in cinema courses because as a musician I’ve had to analyse/study a lot of different styles of m…

Welcome to SPAN404.  On your own blog, please write a brief test post in which you introduce yourself to the class.  You should find that that eventually ends up here… Jon

Hola a todos. Me llamo Angell. I came to Canada as an international student when I was 18 (i know it’s kind of late for language learning though) & studied english and business in kwantlen college, & then I transferred to UBC to study Econ and …

My initial thoughts on the film related back to a film class I recently took concerning Hollywood Cinema. As the narrator pointed out in “Gringo in Mananaland,” the reasons for the way Latin America was portrayed were for multiple purposes, mostly in o…

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