TuTh, 5-9pm, B209
Note that each class session is four hours; this is to give time for movie screenings. Screenings will be the second half of each class (there will be a popcorn/snack rota); the first half of class will be a discussion of the film screened in the previous class.
Blog posts are due either Monday evening or Wednesday evening (i.e. the night before class). You may choose which of the two films you write on each week, but you must write one blog post per week. Comments (on two of your classmates’ blogs) can be written at any time during the week.
July 4: Introductions
Screening, The Man from Acapulco (1973, 95min)
July 6: Reading: Homi Bhabha, “The Other Question…”
Facilitation: Emma and Mackenzie
Screening: The Mark of Zorro (1920, 107min)
July 11: Reading: Kevin Starr, “Stories and Dreams” and “Hollywood, Mass Culture, and the California Experience”.
Facilitation:
Screening: Flying Down to Rio (1933, 89min)
July 13: Reading: Phil Swanson, “Going Down on Good Neighbours”
Facilitation:
Screening: Down Argentine Way (1940, 89min)
July 18: Reading: Adrián Pérez Melgosa, “Dance Diplomacy”
Facilitation:
Screening: Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, 126min)
July 20: Reading: Neil Campbell, “Defining Post-Western Cinema”
Facilitation: John and Camilo
Screening: Touch of Evil (1958, 95min)
July 25: Reading: Donald Pease, “Borderline Justice/States of Emergency”
Facilitation:
Screening: Fun in Acapulco (1963, 97min)
July 27: Reading: Andrew Sackett, “Fun in Acapulco?”
Facilitation:
Screening: Bananas (1971, 82min)
August 1: Reading: Lars Schoultz, “Mutual Hostility as a Way of Life”
Facilitation: Giulia and Xavier
Screening: Walker (1987, 94min)
August 3: Reading: Tony Shaw, “Our Man in Managua”
Facilitation: Katie and Gaby
Screening: The Three Burials of Melquíades Estrada (2005, 121min)
August 8: Reading: Robert Watkins, “Grieving Identity Politics”
Facilitation: Yasaman and Nayid
Screening: Sicario (2015, 121min)
August 10: Reading: Michelle Brown, “Mapping Discursive Closings”
Facilitation: Albert and Sam
Conclusions