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This course is dedicated to the staging of US-Latinx lives and stories in US audiovisual media, particularly film. This course aims at getting to know the diversity of Latinx groups and their contributions to U.S. history and culture. While the label “Latinx” might suggest a homogeneity among Americans who have personal ties to Central America, South America or the Caribbean, Latina/o/x people in the United States, their communities and (hi)stories need to be situated and understood within concrete historical and cultural diasporic contexts. We will study themes central to the formulation to Latinx identities that include stereotyping, representation, ethnicity, immigration, gender, race and sexuality. We will, for example, particularly look at cinematic depictions of Dominican and Puerto Rican communities in New York, Mexican American youth culture in California, and the experiences of people at the borderlands. Please note that you will be asked to access films and tv series through various streaming services. Please also note that some of the material we will watch and discuss in class will depict abuse and violence; we will frame our dealing with this material together in class. Selected readings will be made available on Moodle and you will be asked to hand in three assignments during the course of the semester (study questions, a response paper and a thesis statement). |
