Cinema as a perspective from which to analyze cultural and socio-political developments within the Spanish-speaking world. Topics drawn from the history of specific national cinemas, individual filmmakers or particular "schools," relations between literature and film, and political uses of film. Topic for Spring 2018: Cuban Experimental and Revolutionary Cinema. Overview of Cuban cinema after the revolution of 1959. Focusses particularly on the forging of a new cinematic language from the Third World. Filmmakers studied: Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Nicolas Guillen Landrian, Sara Gomez, among others