| | 01 | -T-R--- | 2:30P-3:50P | Remote / LA | Garcia Liendo | See Instructor | 18 | 18 | 0 | | Desc: | THE SIXTIES IN LATIN AMERICA. The Global Sixties was a time of political turmoil, modernization, and cultural change: for some, an era of political activism, transnational solidarity, and revolution; for others, the time of modernization, consumerism, urbanization, and global media. How were the Sixties experienced in Latin America? During this tumultuous decade, internal and external forces challenged longstanding sociocultural, economic and political models, sparking pivotal debates that would shape the future of the region for decades: modernity versus revolution, counterculture versus culture industry, Latin Americanism versus the Americanization of life, public intellectuals versus youth cultures, military repression versus the activism of new political actors and the politicization of urban and campesino subaltern subjects. More than 50 years later, the resulting social and cultural changes, along with some of its other outcomes--dictatorships, foreign military, and economic interventions--are still being reevaluated, underscoring the significance of the decade's legacies for understanding contemporary Latin America. This course offers an exploration of the Latin American Sixties (1959-1973) from a cultural history perspective. We will study an array of Latin American cultural production such as Third Cinema experimental films, political posters, newsreels, comics, manifests, literary texts, the Latin American Nueva Cancion movement, rock, art interventions, as well as essays and speeches by intellectuals, guerrilla leaders, priests, and critical media theorists. We will combine close reading with a contextualization of Latin American countries within the post-1945 global order. Materials include works by Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Tricontinental, Che Guevara, Santiago Alvarez, Glauber Rocha, Oscar Masotta, Silvio Rodriguez, Mercedes Sosa, Frantz Fanon, and the Nuyorican artists movement.
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| 76 | M-W---- | 10:00A-11:20A | Remote / LA | Davis | May 11 2021 10:30AM - 12:30PM | 13 | 13 | 0 | | Desc: | DAILY LIFE AND PERFORMANCE: EARLY MODERN HISPANIC CULTURE. This senior seminar studies famous plays from early modernity in the Hispanic world that reflect intriguingly on the theatrical nature of social identity. The works we will examine focus on the influence of spectacle and performance as mediums of communication capable of both shaping and challenging the cultural attitudes of observers. We will explore works of the COMEDIA that drew crowds from all walks of life, as Lope de Vega's ARTE NUEVO DE HACER COMEDIAS spurred a boom in the new form of commercial theater that reflected the issues of a society in rapid change. Shaped by popular tastes, this new form of entertainment represented hierarchical social relations of gender as well as those between elites and common subjects, as complex a contested dynamics of power, negotiated by ingenious performances of identity with surprising consequences. Each play is structured by "plays within the play" that range from comic to subversive, as characters act to deceive, to reorder their lives or those of others, and in so doing provoke the response of their audiences. We will examine the dramatic tension caused by the degree to which both internal audiences and we, the readers/external public, are willing to accept these acts and agree with their conveyed meaning, or reject them. Students will read print versions of selected COMEDIAS, and will view modern film versions and video productions of the works to discuss how their messaging has been modified by contemporary directors for audiences today. Students will work in groups to devise their own re-stagings of some favorite scenes to highlight effects of their choice. In addition to group projects, students will write 3 critical essays during the semester, incorporating relevant documented critical readings of their own research.
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