Spanish and Latin American Studies Content Modules 2018/19

Level 4 Modules:

Full Module Title Introducción al mundo hispánico

Module Code ARIB136S4

Credits/Level 30 credits/Level 4

Convenor: Dr Carmen Fracchia

Lecturer(s): Dr Carmen Fracchia

Entrance Requirements:

A-Level/Level 2 Spanish Module to be taught in Spanish

Day/Time: Mondays 6.00-7.20pm (Terms 1 and 2)

Module Description:

Taught in Spanish, this module provides you (if you have A-level Spanish equivalent) with the opportunity to engage with the target language through a range of key cultural and literary texts. It introduces you to different aspects of Spanish and Latin American studies by focusing on history, culture, politics, arts and society.

On completion of the course, students should be able to engage critically with key events of the Spanish-speaking world and identify its historical, geographical and cultural diversity.

The central theme of this course will be the ways in which works of art either contribute or subvert the formation of the Spanish empire from the late fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. There will be an emphasis on the relations between politics, religion, ‘race’ and the visual form. Primary texts to be examined will include the works by Spanish and Mexican painters: Diego Velázquez (1599-1660), Juan de Pareja (c.1606-1670), Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) and Juan Rodríguez Juárez (1675-1728).

Syllabus:

TERM 1: October to December 2018 WEEK 1, Oct. 1st: Introducción Skills: Note taking, class preparation (6.50-7.20pm) WEEK 2, Oct. 8th: Introducción histórica del Imperio español: 1492

WEEK 3, Oct. 15th: El imperio español, cultura visual y su público (1)

WEEK 4, Oct. 22nd: El imperio español, cultura visual y su público (2)

WEEK 5, Oct. 29th: La formación del imperio español y la cultura

visual: Velázquez y el principio de la modernidad: Las Meninas.

WEEK 6, Nov. 5th: READING WEEK

Skills: Referencing and Plagiarism / Close reading and writing

commentaries (6.00-9.00pm) (FR)

WEEK 7, Nov. 12th: Skills: Library training session (6-7.20) (students to meet Librarian at the Library -Seminar Room- at 6pm) WEEK 8, Nov.19th: El arte de dominación: poder imperial y religión: Inquisición (1) WEEK 9, Nov. 26th: Oral presentation in class WEEK 10, Dec. 5th: El arte de dominación: poder imperial y religión: indecencia y modos de ver (2) WEEK 11, Dec.10th: Repaso

TERM 2: January to March 2019

WEEK 1, Jan. 14th: Raza, Religión, Esclavitud y cultura visual (1)

WEEK 2, Jan. 21st: Raza, Religión, Esclavitud y cultura visual (2) WEEK 3, Jan. 28th: Identidad Colonial y Esclavitud en Nueva España

(México): la serie de pinturas de castas de la Braemore House (UK)

WEEK 4, Feb. 4th: La Ilustración WEEK 5, Feb. 11th: El imperio espanol, la Ilustracion y cultura visual

WEEK 6, Feb. 18th: READING WEEK Skills: Essay writing (Also, Preparation for language exams) (6.00-9.00pm) (FR) WEEK 7, Feb. 25th: La Ilustración y el arte de Goya: Retratos de la

aristocracia

WEEK 8, March 4th: La Ilustración y el arte de la modernidad (1): La

serie de Los Caprichos de Goya

WEEK 9, March 11th: La Ilustación y el arte de la modernidad (2): La

serie de Los desastres de la guerra de Goya (1)

WEEK 10, March18th: La Ilustación y el arte de la modernidad (3): La serie de Los desastres de la guerra de Goya (2) WEEK 11, March 25th: Repaso

Assessment: Presentation/Written commentary (1000 words) 20% Theme specific annotated bibliography (1200 words) 40% Critical review of one of the works studied (2000 words) 40%

Essential Texts:

Bibliografía

Alcalá-Zamora, José N. (ed.), La vida cotidiana en la España de

Velázquez (1989), capítulos 7, 8 y 13.

Brown Jonathan and John H. Elliott, A Palace for a King: The Buen

Retiro and the Court of Philip IV, capítulo VI, pp. 141- 192.

Carr Raymond, (ed), Spain: A History (2001), capítulos 5, 6 y 7. Cowans Jon (ed.), Early Modern Spain: A Documentary History (2003). Domínguez Ortíz, Antonio, The Golden Age of Spain, 1516 -1659 (1971). Fracchia, Carmen, ‘(Lack of) Visual Representation of Black Slaves in Spanish Golden Age Painting’, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 10 (2004), pp. 23-34. Fracchia, Carmen, ‘Depicting the Iberian African in New Spain’, in Jean Andrews and Alex Coroleu (eds.), Mexico 1680: Intellectual and Cultural Life at the Apogee of the Barroco de Indias (2007), pp. 49-68. Elliott, John H., Imperial Spain 1469-1716, London, 1963 (numerous reprints including Penguin, 1990). Katzew, Ilona, Casta painting: images of race in eighteenth-century Mexico (2004), pp. 39-53. Maravall, José Antonio, Velázquez y el espíritu de la modernidad (1987). Moffitt, John F., The Arts of Spain (1999), capítulos 3 & 4. Morán Turina, Miguel y Javier Portús, El arte de mirar: la pintura y su público en la España de Velázquez (1997). Pacheco, Francisco, Arte de la Pintura (1649), edited by F. J. Sánchez Cantón (1956). Palomino, Antonio, ‘Vida de Diego Velázquez de Silva’, en Vidas (1715-24), ed. Nina Ayala Mallory (1986), p. 175. Tomlinson, Janis A., Goya en el crepúsculo del Siglo de las Luces (1993).

Other Important Information: Texts and images will be provided via Moodle.

Full Module Title: Studying the Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Native American

Worlds

Module Code: LNLN016S4

Credits/Level 30 / Level 4

Convenor: Dr Luis Trindade (Term 1); Prof. John Kraniauskas (Term 2)

Lecturer(s): Dr Luis Trindade, Dr Patricia Sequeira Brás, Prof. John Kraniauskas,

Dr Mari Paz Balibrea

Entrance

Requirements:

None. This module will be taught in English.

Day/Time: Mondays, 7.40-9.00 pm (Terms 1 and 2)

Module

Description:

This module will equip you with key study skills to enable you to perform independent critical and scholarly work in your subsequent years of study. Areas of skills addressed include class preparation and note taking, using the library and other subject-specific resources, as well as building up academic writing skills through a variety of assessments such as an annotated bibliography and a critical review. These skills are implemented through the study of a range of key cultural concepts and artefacts, which this year will

focus on Latin American, Iberian and African militant cinema in the 1960s, Portuguese cinema novo, and, in the second term, the writing of the Mexican author, Juan Rulfo, and the nation as a cultural object in Spain.

Syllabus:

Term 1 Topic Lecturer

01.10.18 Introduction to the course and term 1 Skills: note taking, class preparation (FR) (8.30-9.00pm)

LT / FR

08.10.18 Topic: Anti-Imperialism and Third Cinema: La Hora de Los Hornos, Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino

Readings: “Towards a Third Cinema”, by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino; “One, Two… Third Cinemas”, by Jonathan Buchsbaum; “Third Cinema / Militant Cinema”, by Mariano Mestman

LT

15.10.18 Skills: avoiding plagiarism Topic: Cinema and Revolution: Red Line, José Filipe Costa Readings: “When Cinema Forges the Event”, by José Filipe Costa

LT

22.10.18 Skills: how to do the first task Topic: Cinema and the Nation: Kuxa Kanema, Margarida Cardoso

Readings/Viewings: “In the Name of Cinema Action and Third World”, by Mahomed Bamba; and “Film Production in Lusophone África”, M. Diawara

LT

29.10.18 Short presentations on specific topics introduced in class.

LT

05.11.18 Reading week Skills: Referencing and Plagiarism/Essay writing (6.00-9.00pm) (TBC)

FR

12.11.18 Skills: Library visit (students to meet Librarian at the Library Seminar Room)

PB

19.11.18 Film and criticism

Belarmino (1964, Fernando Lopes): Historical and political context (New State regime)

PB

26.11.18 Developing analytical skills of filmic medium

Film and criticism

Belarmino (1964) + critical text: Portuguese cinema novo and other new wave cinemas: differences and similarities

PB

3.12.18 Skills: how to write a CRITICAL PB

REVIEW • Analytical skills: developing close reading skills • Reminder of plagiarism issues

10.12.18 Film and criticism

Belarmino (1964) + critical text: the flâneur in Lisbon.

PB

Term 2 Reading Juan Rulfo (Literature and Criticism)

14.01.19 INTRODUCTION TO JUAN RULFO:

Pedro Páramo

Critical reading: Victor Shklovsky...

JK

21.01.19 Pedro Páramo

Critical reading: Carlos Monsiváis

Skills: how to write an annotated bibliography + reminder of plagiarism issues

JK

28.01.19 Pedro Páramo

Critical reading: TBC

JK

04.02.19 Pedro Páramo

Critical reading: Jean Franco

JK

11.02.19 Pedro Páramo

Critical reading: TBC

JK

18.02.19 Reading week Skills: Close reading and writing commentaries (Also, Preparation for language exams) (6.00-9.00pm) (TBC)

FR

25.02.19 Regarding the nation as a cultural object: 1.Theory

Benedict Anderson. “Introduction”in Imagined Communities.

MPB

04.03.19 Regarding the nation as a cultural object: 2.The Spanish case (Part 1)

Pérez Galdós, Benito. Trafalgar (1873)

MPB

11.03.19 Regarding the nation as a cultural object: 2.The Spanish case (Part 2)

Pérez Galdós, Benito. Trafalgar (1873)

MPB

18.03.19 Modernity and its cultural discontents: 1- Not modern enough

Blanco White, José María. “Letter III” from Letters from Spain (1822).

MPB

25.03.19 Final revision

Skills: how to write an ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Analytical skills: engaging with

academic voices

• Reminder of plagiarism issues

MPB

Assessment

Table:

Assignment Description Weighting

Presentation and

Individual first writing task

1000 words 20%

Critical review 1200 words 40%

Theme specific annotated

bibliography

2000 words 40%

Essential and

recommended

texts:

TERM 1: Primary materials La hora de los hornos, Getino and Solanas, 1969 Linha Vermelha, José Filipe Costa, 2012 Kuxa Kanema, Margarida Cardoso, 2003

Belarmino, Fernando Lopes, 1964

Secondary sources

Bamba, Mahomed. “In the name of ‘cinema action’ and Third World”, in Journal of African Cinemas, 2, 2011

Costa, José Filipe. “When Cinema Forges the Event”, in Third Text, January 2011

Gray, Ros. “Cinema on the Cultural Front: Film-Making and the Mozambican Revolution”, in Journal of African Cinemas, Volume 3, Number 2, 1 March 2012

Loftus, Maria. “Kuxa Kanema: the rise and fall of an experimental documentary series in Mozambique”, in Journal of African Cinemas, Volume 3, Number 2, 1 March 2012

Martin, Michael T. New Latin American Cinema. Theory, Practices and Transcontinental Articulations, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997

"‘Finally, we have our own nouvelle vague.’ Antonio da Cunha Telles Productions and the Cinema Novo Português (1963-1967)," eSharp, Special Issue: New Waves and New Cinemas, 2009, pp. 4-21, by Anthony De Melo "'If Life Permits Me' Resentations of Lisbon in Fernando Lopes's Belarmino", Shades of Grey 1960s Lisbon in Novel, Film and Photobook, Maney Publishing: London, 2011, p.113-161, Paul Melo e Castro

TERM 2: Primary Texts Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo (Serpent’s Tail) Anderson,Benedict. Imagined Communities.Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London:Verso, 1983, pp. 1-46. Blanco White, José María. “Letter III” from Letters from Spain (1822). Available on-line:http://archive.org/details/lettersfromspain00whitiala Pérez Galdós, Benito. Trafalgar. A Tale. W.S. Gottsberger, 1884 [original Spanish from 1873]. Free access on line: https://archive.org/details/trafalgaratale00galdgoog Secondary Reading Where possible photocopies of the critical readings will be provided. You will find some of them, those not dealing with Rulfo (e.g. Shkolvsky) in David Lodge (ed.), Modern Criticism and Theory : A Reader (well-worth purchasing or consulting: there are plenty of copies of its various editions in the Library). Raymond Carr (ed.), Spain: A History (Oxford University Press, 2000) [Recommended as historical background reading]

Level 5 Modules:

Full Module Title: Survey of 20th Century Spanish Film

Module Code: ARIB128S5

Credits/Level: 30 Credits / Level 5

Convenor: Dr Mari Paz Balibrea

Lecturer: Dr Mari Paz Balibrea

Entrance Requirements:

Spanish 2 or equivalent. Classes will be taught in English with some films in Spanish without subtitles.

Day/Time: Monday 6-9 pm Term 3 (Intensive)

Module Description:

Through a focus on key authors and works, this course introduces students to central aspects in twentieth century Spanish film placed in their historical and cultural contexts. The module offers a survey of the main trends in the history of 20th C Spanish cinema and will build on students already acquired basic knowledge of basic technical and theoretical issues in film study such as: editing, sound, framing, camerawork, lighting, mise-en-scène, costume, genre, self-referentiality and intertextuality, the construction of a national (or

regional) cinema, censorship and spectatorship.

Syllabus:

TERM 3 Week 1: Introduction, the early years: before National Cinema Case study: Selection of fragments accessible via Youtube Week 2: The avant-garde Case study: Luis Buñuel/Salvador Dalí: Un chien andalou Week 3: The Spanish Civil War and the film industry Case study: André Malraux: Sierra de Teruel Week 4: Francoism: the heroic years Case study: José Luis Saenz de Heredia: Raza Week 5: Francoism: The Old Spanish Cinema Case study: Fernando Palacios: La gran familia Week 6: Francoism: The New Spanish Cinema Case study: Carlos Saura: Ana y los lobos Week 7: Democracy: Spain Redefined Case study: Pedro Almodóvar: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios Week 8: Other Nationalisms within the Spanish State Case study: Julio Medem:Vacas Week 9: Beyond National Cinema, again Case study: Guillermo del Toro: The Devil’s Backbone Week 10: Concluding remarks and essay workshop

Assessment Table:

Assignment Description Weighting

Oral presentation 10 minutes individual presentation

30%

Critical Review 1,500 words 30%

Essay 2,500 words 40%

Essential Texts:

Films:

Luis Buñuel/Salvador Dalí: Un chien andalou

André Malraux: Sierra de Teruel

José Luis Saenz de Heredia: Raza Fernando Palacios: La gran familia Carlos Saura: Ana y los lobos Julio Medem: Vacas Pedro Almodóvar: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios Guillermo del Toro: The Devil’s Backbone. Available through BoB:

(https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/001A5950

?bcast=114425529)

Secondary reading:

Jo Labanyi and Tatjana Pavlović (eds). A Companion to Spanish

Cinema. London: Blackwell, 2013

Jordan, Barry and Mark Allinson. Spanish Cinema. A Student’s

Guide. London: Bloomsbury, 2005

Full Module Title:

The Essay in Latin America - CANCELLED

Module Code: LNLN013S5

Credits/Level: 30/Level 5

Convenor: Prof John Kraniauskas

Lecturer(s): Prof John Kraniauskas

Entrance Requirements:

Ability to read in Spanish

Day/Time: Thursday 18.00 – 21.00 Term 2 (Intensive)

Module Description:

This course provides a survey of the Essay in Latin America from the

post-independence period to the present. The course concentrates

on three aspects of the essay in context: as a literary form; as a

political intervention; and as a cultural and rhetorical text. Beginning

in the period of the struggle for Independence, in this course we will

touch on the various ways in which key thinkers in the region

reflected upon issues such as the art of government and nation-

building, modernization, the so-called ‘Indian’ and ‘social questions’,

the cultural politics of regional ‘identity’, revolution and dictatorship.

All texts are taught in the Spanish language.

Syllabus:

Simon Bolivar, ‘Carta de Jamaica’; D. F. Sarmiento, Facundo,

Civilización y barbarie*; J. Martí, ‘Nuestra América’; J. E. Rodó,

Ariel*; M. González Prada, ‘El intellectual y el obrero’ and ‘Nuestros

indios’; R Barrett, ‘Lo que son los yerbales’; A. Reyes. ‘Vision de

Anahuac’; L. Lugones, ‘La patria fuerte’; J C Mariátegui, Siete

ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana*; and ‘El hombre y

el mito’; V. Haya de la Torre, ‘¿Qué es el APRA?’, ‘El APRA como

partido’, and ‘No nos avergoncemos de llamarnos indoamericanos’;

O. Paz, El laberinto de la soledad*; E. ‘Che’ Guevara, ‘El socialismo y

el hombre en Cuba’; R. Fernández Retamar, Calibán: apuntes sobre

la cultura en Nuestra América; Subcomandante Marcos, a selection

to be announced; P. Guzmán, Nostalgia de la luz (film).

Week 1: Introduction and Bolívar

Week 2: Sarmiento

Week 3: Martí and Rodó

Week 4: Rodó and González Prada

Week 5: Barrett and Reyes

Week 6: Reading Week

Week 7: Lugones and Mariátegui

Week 8: Mariátegui and Haya de la Torre

Week 9: Paz

Week 10: Guevara and Fernández Retamar

Week 11: Marcos and Guzmán

Assessment:

Commentary (1500 words) Critical Review (1500 words) Final Essay (2500 words)

Essential Texts: All texts marked with asterisk (*)

Level 6 Modules:

Full Module Title:

Iberian Political Cultures: Approaches to Modern Portugal and Spain

Module Code: LNLN062S6

Credits/Level: Level 6, 30 credits

Convenor: Dr Mari Paz Balibrea

Lecturer(s): Dr Mari Paz Balibrea, Dr Luis Trindade

Entrance Requirements:

No knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese required, all texts available in English translation and classes taught in English

Day/Time: Wednesday 6.00-9.00 Term 1(Intensive)

Module Description:

This course approaches Spanish and Portuguese modern history and politics by analysing cultural objects in the Iberian context. The course will relate historical periods and political cultures (such as liberalism, fascism, radicalism and democracy) with the topic of modernization, a common thread running along both Portuguese and Spanish history throughout the twentieth century.

Syllabus:

PORTUGAL Week 1: Liberalism: Progress and Crisis Álvaro de Campos [Fernando Pessoa]. Triumphal Ode.

Week 2: Fascism: Progress and Crisis (cont): Almada Negreiros and propaganda Week 3: Salazarism between tradition and modernity Arthur Duarte. O Costa do Castelo Week 4: Salazarism and the negotiation of modernity: Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest (1964/1974) Week 5: Banal Democracy and Neoliberal Europeanization: Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest (1974/1982) Week 6: READING WEEK, NO CLASS SPAIN Week 7: Liberalism: Progress and Crisis José Ortega y Gasset. The revolt of the masses.

Week 8: Fascism: Progress and Crisis (cont) Week 9: Francoism as reaction and modernization: the case of Abstract Art Week 10: Francoism as reaction and modernization: Anti-francoist responses Primary text: Basilio Martín Patino: Nueve Cartas a Berta [Nine Letters to Berta] (film)

Week 11: Banal Democracy and Neoliberal Europeanization Primary text: Cédric Klapisch. L’auberge espagnol [film]

Assessment Table:

Assignment Description Weighting

Class presentation 10 minutes 20%

Final essay 3500 words 80%

Essential Texts:

Fernando Pessoa. A little larger than the entire universe (ed. Richard

Zenith). Penguin Books

Mariana Pinto dos Santos. José de Almada Negreiros. A way of

being modern. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2017

Arthur Duarte. O Costa do Castelo [DVD], Portugal, 1941

For those of you who know little about 20th C Portugal, you can read

prior to the beginning of the class :

Birmingham, David. A Concise History of Portugal. Cambridge

University Press, 1993

Trindade, Luis (ed.). The Making of Modern Portugal. Cambridge

Scholars Publishing, 2013

Ortega y Gasset, José. The revolt of the masses. Available in

English on-line:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7153482/Ortega-y-Gasset-The-Revolt-of-the-Masses The book in Spanish La rebelión de las masas is also available on

line :

http://www.laeditorialvirtual.com.ar/pages/Ortega_y_Gasset/Ortega_L

aRebelionDeLasMasas01.htm

The book is available in print too, in the original and in translation,

and the BBK library has copies in Spanish. Read it in Spanish if you

can.

Basilio Martín Patino: Nueve Cartas a Berta [Nine Letters to Berta] (film). Available to buy without subtitles. Provided by lecturer with subtitles. Cédric Klapisch. L’auberge espagnol [film]. Widely available to buy with English subtitles. Owned by our library.

For those of you who know little about 20th C Spain, you can read

prior to the beginning of the class :

Graham, Helen and Jo Labanyi. (eds). Spanish cultural studies. An

introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995

Romero Salvadó, Francisco J. Twentieth-Century Spain. Politics and

Society in Spain, 1898-1998. New York: Palgrave, 2000.

Our BBK library has copies of both.

Full Module Title: Space, Culture and Society in Brazil

Module Code: LNLN054S6

Credits/Level: Level 6 / 30 Credits

Convenor: Prof Luciana Martins

Lecturer(s): Prof Luciana Martins

Entrance

Requirements:

None, taught in English

Day/Time: Wednesday 18:00 – 21:00 Term 2 (Intensive)

Module

Description:

This module critically examines the space, culture and society in

Brazil from the nineteenth century to the present. It introduces the

geographical contribution to a set of interdisciplinary debates in

cultural studies, history, anthropology, music, literature and visual

culture. The module familiarises students with relationships between

global and local processes; national and regional identities; place,

class, race; and issues of representation, landscape and modernity.

Drawing upon a variety of case studies, the lectures address the

social production and the meanings of ‘place’, ‘space’, ‘nature’,

‘culture’, and ‘identity’ in an age of globalisation.

Syllabus:

Introduction

Week 1 - Thinking geographically: Brazilian culture, society & space

Identities and Differences

Week 2 - Racial dilemmas; new identities: immigrant ethnicities

Week 3 - Music and national identity

Week 4 - The American model: music & film

Week 5 - Performances

Week 6 - Reading Week

Local-Global

Week 7 - Garbage cultures: the hidden face of globalisation 1

Week 8 - Garbage cultures: the hidden face of globalisation 2

Nature-Culture

Week 9 - Indigeneity and the nation

Week 10 - Contesting development: views from Amazonia

Week 11 - Cinematic images of the Brazilian Indian

Assessment: Essay 1 (2500 words): 40% Essay 2 (3500 words): 60%

Essential Texts: S. J. Albuquerque and K. Bishop-Sanchez, Performing Brazil:

Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts (Madison: The

University of Wisconsin Press, 2015)

S. Brandellero (ed), The Brazilian Road Movie: Journeys of (Self)

Discovery (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013)

T. Devine Guzmán, Native and National in Brazil: Indigeneity after

Independence (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press,

2013)

J. Lesser, Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities and

the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil (: Duke University Press, 1999)

B. McCann, Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of

Modern Brazil (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004)

C. A. Perrone and C. Dunn, Brazilian Popular Music and

Globalization (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2001)

R. Stam, Tropical Multiculturalism: Comparative History of Race in

Brazilian Cinema (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997)

N. Stepan, Picturing Tropical Nature (London: Reaktion, 2001)

A. P. Tota, The Seduction of Brazil: The Americanization of Brazil

During World War II, trans.L. B. Ellis (Austin: University of Texas

Press, 2009)

D. Williams, Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-

1945 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001)

Films:

Boca de lixo (Eduardo Coutinho, 1993)

Caetano Veloso (Gerald Fox, 2003)

Ilha das Flores (Jorge Furtado, 1989)

Iracema, uma transa amazônica (Jorge Bodansky and Orlando

Senna,1974)

Waste Land (Lucy Walker, 2010)

Yndio do Brasil (Sylvio Back, 1995)

Other Important

Information:

The course will be conducted in a colloquium format. All students will

be expected to attend every session and to participate actively in

class discussion.

Full Module Title: Spanish Pragmatics

Module Code: LNLN040S6

Credits/Level: 30 / Level 6

Convenor: Dr María Elena Placencia

Lecturer(s): Dr María Elena Placencia

Entrance Requirements:

Pre-requisite: Spanish 3 or equivalent

Day/Time: Thursdays 6:00 to 9:00 pm (Term 1)

Module

Description:

This module, aimed at advanced learners or native speakers of

Spanish, focuses on the study of the use of Spanish in interaction

from a sociocultural perspective. Students will be introduced to

some of the theories that deal with language use in the management

of interpersonal relations, with an emphasis on (im)politeness theory,

and will look at their application to a range of topics (e.g. personal

address, speech act realization, etc.). They will also engage with

descriptive techniques in the field and methodological issues. The

module aims to bring awareness of micro- and macro-social factors

that have an impact on language use, drawing on various subfields,

including intercultural, variational and internet pragmatics.

Syllabus:

Sample topics

- Language as action and the role of context in the interpretation of

meaning

- From expressed to implied meanings

- Im/politeness: managing rapport and interpersonal relationships

through language

- Pronominal and nominal address in interaction

- Data collection in pragmatics research

Assessment:

Assignment Description Weighting

Essay 2,500 words 40%

Essay 3,500 words 60%

Note: Essays can be written in English or Spanish.

Indicative reading:

Selected chapters from the following books (among others) :

Márquez-Reiter, R., & Placencia, M.E., 2005. Spanish Pragmatics.

Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Bravo, D. & Briz, A. 2004. Pragmática sociocultural. Estudios sobre el

discurso de cortesía en español. Barcelona: Ariel

Cutting, J. 2008. Pragmatics and discourse: A resource book for

students, 2nd edn. London: Routledge.

Pinto, D. & De Pablos-Ortega, C., 2014. Seamos pragmáticos. Yale

University Press.

Relevant articles from the following journals (amongst other journals):

Oralia – Revista de Análisis del Discurso Oral, Journal of Pragmatics,

Pragmatics, Sociocultural Pragmatics

Full Module Title:

Picturing the African Presence in Early Modern Spain

Module Code:

(TBC)

Credits/Level: 30 / 6

Convenor: Dr Carmen Fracchia

Lecturer(s): Dr Carmen Fracchia

Entrance Requirements:

No pre-requisites. Course taught in English

Day/Time:

Friday 6.00-7.30 pm

Module Description:

The central theme of this course will be the ways in which the visual

form (mainly painting) responds to the African presence in early

modern Spain from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. The core

of this module will be the relations between religion, concepts of

human diversity (‘race’) and the visual form. It will mainly explore the

effects that African slavery, the process of manumission or freedom

of slaves, and the foundation of black confraternities had in the

articulations of the visual form. We will consider a series of crucial

events that had an impact on the emergence of these images, such

the conquest and imperial expansion in Africa and in the New World;

the transatlantic slave trade, the workings of the Inquisition and the

imperial policies of purity of blood; and, the Catholic Reformation.

Primary texts to be examined will include the seventeenth-century

paintings by the Afro-Hispanic slaves Juan de Pareja and Sebastián

Gómez and by their slave-owners Diego Velázquez and Bartolomé

Murillo.

Syllabus:

TERM 1: October-December 2018

WEEK 1, Oct. 5: Introduction

WEEK 2, Oct. 12: The African Presence in Early Modern Spain (1)

WEEK 3, Oct. 19: The African Presence in Early Modern Spain (2)

WEEK 4, Oct. 26: The African Presence in Early Modern Spain (3)

WEEK 5, Nov. 1: The African Presence in Early Modern Spain (4)

WEEK 6, Nov. 8th: READING WEEK

WEEK 7, Nov. 15th: The African Presence in Early Modern Spain (5)

WEEK 8, Nov. 22nd: The African Presence in Early Modern Spain (6)

WEEK 9, Nov. 29th: The African Presence in Early Modern Spain (7)

WEEK 10, Nov. 7th: The African Presence in Early Modern Spain (8)

WEEK 11, Dec. 14th: Revision

TERM 2: January-March 2019

WEEK 1, Jan. 18th: Introduction to Early Modern Spanish Visual

Culture (1)

WEEK 2, Jan. 25th: Introduction to Early Modern Spanish Visual

Culture (2)

WEEK 3, Feb. 1st : Slavery and Visual Art (1)

WEEK 4, Feb. 8th: Slavery and Visual Art (2)

WEEK 5, Feb. 15th: Slavery and Visual Art (3)

WEEK 6, Feb. 22nd: READING WEEK

WEEK 7, March 1st: Freedom from Slavery and Visual Art

WEEK 9, March 15h: Afro-Hispanic Contribution to Spanish Art (1)

WEEK 10, March 22nd: Afro-Hispanic Contribution to Spanish Art (2)

WEEK 11, March 29th: Revision

Assessment Table:

Assignment Weighting

Essay 1 (2,500 words)

40%

Essay 2 (3,500 words)

60%

Essential Texts:

I strongly recommend for purchase:

*Phillips, Jr., William D., Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern

Seville (Pennsylvania, 2014).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brilliant, Richard, Portraiture (London, 1991).

Brooke, Xanthe and Peter Cherry (eds.), Murillo: Scenes of

Childhood, Exhibition Cat. (London, 2001).

Brown, Jonathan, Velázquez: Painter and Courtier (New Haven,

1986).

Bryson, Norman, Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life

Painting (London, 1990).

Bryson, Norman,’Introduction’, in Noman Bryson, Calligram: Essays in New Art History from France (Cambridge, 1998). Cowans Jon (ed.), Early Modern Spain: A Documentary History

(2003).

Davis, David Brion, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (Oxford, 2006). Earle, Thomas F. and Kate J. P. Lowe (eds.), Black Africans in

Renaissance Europe (Cambridge, 2005): Introduction and chapters

10, 11 and 15.

Fracchia, Carmen, ‘The Fall into Oblivion of the Works of the Slave

Painter Juan de Pareja’, translated by Hilary Macartney, Art In

Translation, vol. 4.2 (June 2012), pp. 163-184.

Fracchia, Carmen, ‘Constructing the Black Slave in Early Modern

Spanish Painting’, in Tom Nichols (ed.), Others and Outcasts in Early

Modern Europe: Picturing the Social Margins (Aldershot, 2007), pp.

179-95.

Fradera, Josep M. and Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (eds.), Slavery

and Antislavery in Spain’s Atlantic Empire (New York, 2013).

Harris, Enriqueta, Velázquez (Oxford, 1982).

Harrison, Charles, Paul Wood and Jason Gaiger (eds.), Art in Theory:

1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Oxford, 2000), pp.29-38

and pp. 267-270.

Lugo-Ortiz, Agnes and Angela Rosenthal (eds.), Slave Portraiture in

the Atlantic World (Cambridge and New York, 2013).

McGrath, Elizabeth and Jean Michel Massing (eds.), The Slave in

European Art: From Renaissance Trophy to Abolitionist Emblem

(London, 2012).

Massing, Jean Michel, ‘Weiditz and Costume Books’, in David

Bindman, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Jean Michel Massing (eds.),

The Image of the Black in Western Art 3.2 (Cambridge, Mass., 2011),

pp. 45-54.

Perry, Mary. Elizabeth, Crime and Society in Early Modern Spain

(Hanover, NH, 1980).

Ravenscroft, Janet, ‘Dwarfs- and a Loca- as Ladies ‘Maids at the

Spanish Habsburg Courts’, in Nadine Akkerman and B Houben

(eds.), The Politics of Female Households (Leiden, 2014), pp. 147-77.

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, Exhibition

catalogue (Baltimore, 2012).

Stoichita, Victor I., ‘El retrato del esclavo Juan de Pareja: semejanza

y conceptismo’, in Fundacion Amigos del Museo del Prado (ed.),

Velázquez (Barcelona,1999), pp. 367-81.

Tiffany, Tanya J.,Light, Darkness, and African Salvation: Velázquez’s Supper at Emmaus’, Art History, vol. 31 (February 2008), pp. 33-56. Verdi Webster, S, Art and Ritual in Golden-Age Spain. Sevillian

Confraternities and the Processional Sculptures of Holy Week

(Princeton, 1998).

Walker, John A. and Sarah Chaplin, Visual Culture: An Introduction

(Manchester, 1997).

West, S.,Portraiture (Oxford, 2004).

Zimmermann, Kees W. (ed.), One Leg in the Grave Revisited: The

miracle of the transplantation of the black leg by the saints Cosmas

and Damian (Groningen, 2013).

Full Module Title: Project BA Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

Module Code: LNLN030S6

Credits/Level: 30 Credits / Level 6

Convenor: Dr María Elena Placencia

Lecturer(s): Lecturers in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

Entrance Requirements:

Students are advised to choose/propose a topic related to a module or modules that they have taken before as part of their degree programme. They need to have the relevant background in order to be able to undertake a given research project successfully.

Day/Time: N/A

Module

Description:

Taken in the final year, the Project is a research module that allows

students to explore in depth a topic of their interest, over the course of

their final year. It has equal weight as a full 30-credit module and it is

not taught. As such, students are required to undertake work

equivalent to that required for any 30-credit module. The topic is

selected by students in consultation with their supervisor (i.e., a

lecturer who has agreed to act as their supervisor).

Syllabus: N/A

Assessment Table:

1. Monday 12 November 2018: Deadline for students to provide a

working title of their project (in consultation with their

supervisor).

2. Friday 25 January 2019: Deadline for students to submit to

Moodle a project plan, a draft chapter, and a bibliography of

works consulted or to be consulted via Turnitin.

3. Monday 13 May 2019: Deadline for the submission of the full

project via Turnitin.

Please note:

- The project should not normally exceed 8,000 words.

- Projects may be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese (in

consultation with supervisor), but no extra credit will be given

for writing in Spanish or Portuguese.

Essential Texts: N/A. It is an independent research project.

Other Important

Information:

Students should discuss the final year project with the BA SPLAS

course director or their personal tutor in the summer term of their

second, third or fifth year of study (second, for full-time students; third,

for part-time students; fifth, for students on the decelerated route). The

course director / personal tutor will recommend a potential supervisor

for the project with whom the student should arrange an appointment

soon after, before the start of the summer break. Students are

advised to start working on their project during the summer break (e.g.

doing bibliographical searches, etc.) but only if their topic has been

approved by a supervisor in the Section.

During the academic year, students will see their supervisor on at

least three occasions.

Students will not be permitted to begin a project after the sixth week of

the autumn term.

Other Option Modules with a Spanish / Latin American Studies component (2018/19)

The modules below should normally be considered if the modules above cannot be taken on account of timetable clashes.

Level 4 Module:

Full Module Title Understanding Culture: Languages and Texts

Module Code LNLN021S4

Credits/Level 30 credits, Level 4

Convenor: Dr Martin Shipway

Lecturer(s): Dr Mari Paz Balibrea, Dr Martin Shipway, Dr John Walker

Entrance Requirements:

No language requirement other than English

Day/Time: Fridays, 6.00-7.20

Module Description:

This module will provide you with an introduction to what it means to study languages and cultures. We will explore the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural nature of language and cultural study by focusing on different kinds of text – literary, filmic, historical, visual – from a variety of different cultural contexts: French-, German-, Portuguese and Spanish-speaking. You will learn about the practical and theoretical tools you need to engage with these texts and the cultural contexts which produced them and to work with these tools in your own writing.

Syllabus:

Term One

05.10.18 Introduction to Studying Languages and Cultures

JW/MS

12.10.18 Languages, Cultures and Literature JW

19.10.18 Reading Kafka (Die Verwandlung / Metamorphosis)

Please read the story before class: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5200/5200-h/5200-h.htm

JW

26.10.18 Reading Kafka (Das Urteil /The Judgement)

Please read the story before class:

http://www.franzkafkastories.com/shortStories.php?story_id =kafka_the_judgement

JW

02.11.18 Reading Kafka (Das Urteil /The Judgement) JW

09.11.18 Reading Week

16.11.18 Languages, Cultures and Film MPB

23.11.18 Watching Alea and Tabío (Strawberry and Chocolate / Fresa y Chocolate)

Please watch this film in advance of the class: it is available on DVD.

MPB

30.11.18 Watching Alea and Tabío (Strawberry and Chocolate / Fresa y Chocolate)

MPB

07.12.18 Watching Almodóvar (Todo sobre mi madre / All about my mother)

Please watch this film in advance of the class: it is available on DVD

MPB

14.12.18 Watching Almodóvar (Todo sobre mi madre / All about my mother)

MPB

Term Two

18.01.19 Visual cultures: understanding ‘the visual’

Gillian Rose, ‘Researching with visual materials: a brief survey’

LM

25.01.19 Visual cultures: a critical approach

Gillian Rose, ‘Towards a critical visual methodology’

LM

01.02.19 Self-fashioning images: Andean photographs

James Scorer, ‘Andean self-fashioning: Martín Chambi, photography and the ruins at Machu Picchu’

LM

08.02.19 In and out of focus: imagined modernities in Brazil

Beatriz Jaguaribe and Maurício Lissovsky, ‘The visible and the invisibles: photography and social imaginaries in Brazil’

LM

15.02.19 Questioning photojournalism: Sebastião Salgado’s Latin American visions

John Mraz, ‘Sebastião Salgado: ways of seeing Latin America’

LM

22.02.19 Reading Week

01.03.19 Languages, Cultures and History MS

08.03.19 Writing French defeat, occupation and resistance: Marc Bloch, Etrange défaite / Strange Defeat

Please read as much as possible before the class, focusing on chapter 3 (available via Moodle)

MS

15.03.19 Remembering French defeat, occupation and resistance: Marcel Ophüls, Le chagrin et la pitié / The Sorrow and the Pity

Please watch this film (or at least part 2) in advance of the class: it is available on DVD.

MS

22.03.19 France and Algeria: Julien Duvivier, Pépé Le Moko ; Gillo Pontecorvo, La Bataille d’Alger / The Battle of Algiers

Please watch The Battle of Algiers in advance of the class: it is available on DVD.

MS

29.03.19 France and Algeria: Gillo Pontecorvo, La Bataille d’Alger / The Battle of Algiers

MS

Assessment:

1. A 500 word assessment task to be submitted by Friday 9 November 2018. This is worth 20% of the mark for the module.

2. A 500 word assessment task to be submitted by Friday 18 January 2019. This is worth 20% of the mark for the module.

3. A 1,500 word essay to be submitted on Friday 3 May 2019. This is worth 30% of the mark for the module.

4. A 1,500 word essay to be submitted on Friday 31 May 2019. This is worth 30% of the mark for the module.

Essential Texts: Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung / Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka, Das Urteil / The Judgement

Alea and Tabío, Strawberry and Chocolate / Fresa y Chocolate

Pedro Almodóvar, Todo sobre mi madre / All About my Mother https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/00104F91?bcast=72380164

Marc Bloch, Etrange défaite / Strange Defeat

Marcel Ophüls, Le chagrin et la pitié / The Sorrow and the Pity

Julien Duvivier, Pépé Le Moko

Gillo Pontecorvo, La Bataille d’Alger / The Battle of Algiers

Rod Kedward, La Vie en bleu: France and the French since 1900 (Penguin, 2005)

Gillian Rose, Visual Methodologies : An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials, 3rd edition (London : Sage, 2013), Chapters 1 and 2

James Scorer, ‘Andean self-fashioning: Martín Chambi, photography and the ruins at Machu Picchu’, History of Photography 38: 4 (2014), 379-397

Beatriz Jaguaribe and Maurício Lissovsky, ‘The visible and the invisibles: photography and social imaginaries in Brazil’, Public Culture 21: 1 (2009), 175-209

John Mraz, ‘Sebastião Salgado: ways of seeing Latin America’, Third Text 16:1 (2002), 15-30

Levels 5/6 Modules:

Full Module Title

Film and Politics

Module Code AREL094S5/AREL013S6

Credits/Level 30 credits / Levels 5 and 6

Convenor: Dr Mari Paz Balibrea

Lecturer(s): Dr Mari Paz Balibrea, Prof Joanne Leal, Dr Martin Shipway,

Entrance Requirements:

There is no language requirement for this module other than English

Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6.00-7.20, Terms 2 and 3

Module Description:

Taking the interrelationship between film and politics as its central theme, the course organizes its materials around the phenomenon of fascism, a dominant twentieth-century experience within each of the three cultures on which it primarily focuses: France, Germany and Spain. Dividing its material into a variety of sections, including film and proto-fascism, film and trauma, representing the war, representing the Holocaust, resisting fascism, and (mis)representing the past, the course aims to help you investigate: a) the ways in which film can reflect on political developments both as they happen and in retrospect; b) how film can itself become a political instrument and whose purposes it can serve; c) how film can help to redefine the political. The course also aims to help you understand the relationship between individual films and the time and place of their production and to develop your film analytical skills.

Syllabus: Term Two

15 Jan 2019 What is political in film? (MPB)

22 Jan 2019 Displacement (1): Allegory (MPB) Juan Antonio Bardem, Death of a Cyclist (1955) (Subtitled version in BBK library)

29 Jan 2019 Displacement (2): Parody (MPB) Luis García Berlanga, Bienvenido Mr Marshall (1953) (lecturer will provide subtitled version)

05 Feb 2019 In focus (1): iconoclasm (MPB) Luis Buñuel, Viridiana (1961)(Subtitled version in BBK library)

12 Feb 2019 In focus (2): the politics in political content (MPB) Salvador Calvo, 1898. Los últimos de Filipinas (2016) (Subtitled version in BBK library) & Antonio Román, Los últimos de Filipinas (1945) (non-subtitled version available in You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-fJoAbaPaw)

19 Feb 2019 Reading Week

26 Feb 2019 Memory, guilt and transference (MS) Alain Resnais, Nuit et brouillard (1955) & Hiroshima mon amour (1959) (subtitled versions widely available, including

in Bbk library)

05 Mar 2019 Memory, guilt and transference (MS) Marcel Ophüls, Le chagrin et la pitié (The Sorrow and the Pity, 1969) (subtitled version widely available, including in Bbk library)

12 Mar 2019 Memory, guilt and transference (MS) Louis Malle, Lacombe Lucien (1974), Au revoir les enfants (1988) (subtitled versions widely available, including in Bbk library)

19 Mar 2019 Memory, guilt and transference (MS) Jacques Audiard, Un héros très discret (Self-made Hero, 1996) (subtitled version widely available, including in Bbk library)

26 Mar 2019 Memory, guilt and transference (MS) Michael Haneke, Caché (Hidden, 2005) (subtitled version widely available, including in Bbk library)

Term Three

30 Apr 2019 Tba

07 May 2019 Tba

14 May 2019 Tba

21 May 2019 Tba

28 May 2019 Tba

04 Jun 2019 Representing the rise of Nazism (JL) Wolfgang Staudte, Rotation (1949) (JL)

11 Jun 2019 Representing WW2 (JL) Bernhard Wicki, Die Brücke (The Bridge, 1959) (JL)

18 Jun 2019 Representing the Holocaust (JL) Frank Bayer, Jakob the Liar (Jakob der Lügner, 1974) & Roman Polanski, The Pianist (2002) (JL)

25 Jun 2019 Representing the Holocaust (JL) Frank Bayer, Jakob the Liar (Jakob der Lügner, 1974) and Roman Polanski, The Pianist (2002) (JL)

02 Jul 2019 Conclusion (JL)

09 Jul 2019 In-class test

Assessment: Level 5: One essay, 2500 words (50%) on a set topic relating to Term Two sessions, due 1 May 2019

Level 6: One research essay, 3500 words (50%), topic agreed with relevant tutor (50%), due 31 May 2019

Levels 5 & 6: In-class test (50%), covering Term Three topics

Essential Texts:

You will need to have watched all the films listed in the syllabus above. All are available on DVD or can be viewed on-line.

Luis García Berlanga, Bienvenido Mr Marshall (1953) (lecturer will provide subtitled version)

Luis Buñuel, Viridiana (1961)(Subtitled version in BBK library)

Salvador Calvo, 1898. Los últimos de Filipinas (2016) (Subtitled version in BBK library)

Antonio Román, Los últimos de Filipinas (1945) (non-subtitled version available in You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-fJoAbaPaw)

Alain Resnais, Nuit et brouillard (1955) (subtitled version widely available, including in Bbk library)

Alain Resnais, Hiroshima mon amour (1959) (subtitled version widely available, including in Bbk library)

Marcel Ophüls, Le chagrin et la pitié (The Sorrow and the Pity, 1969) (subtitled version widely available, including in Bbk library)

Louis Malle, Lacombe Lucien (1974) (subtitled version widely available, including in Bbk library)

Louis Malle, Au revoir les enfants (1988) (subtitled version widely available, including in Bbk library)

Jacques Audiard, Un héros très discret (Self-made Hero, 1996) (subtitled version widely available, including in Bbk library)

Michael Haneke, Caché (Hidden, 2005) (subtitled version widely available, including in Bbk library)

Wolfgang Staudte, Rotation (1949): http://bbk.kanopystreaming.com/video/rotation

Bernhard Wicki, Die Brücke (The Bridge, 1959): available on You Tube

Frank Bayer, Jakob the Liar (Jakob der Lügner, 1974): http://bbk.kanopystreaming.com/video/jacob-liar

Roman Polanski, The Pianist (2002): https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/004F3DE7?bcast=54227515

Full Module Title

Reading Transnational Cultures

Module Code ARCL022S5

Credits/Level 30 credits, Level 5

Convenor: Prof Joanne Leal

Lecturer(s): Prof Joanne Leal, Dr Martin Shipway, Dr Ann Lewis, Dr Patricia Sequeira-Bras

Entrance Requirements:

No language requirement other than English

Day/Time: Mondays, 6.00-9.00, Term 3

Module Description:

This module is designed to help you explore the ways in which culture relates to the ideas of the nation and the transnational by encouraging you to work with cultural artefacts which engage with more than one cultural context. We will ask questions like: how important/restricting it is to explore culture within a national context; what does a text need to do to be described as transnational; can our understanding of these categories be transformed by our engagement with literary and filmic texts; what are some of the multiple ways in which a text can engage with more than one culture; are these always liberating and transformative or can they also be oppressive and reactionary; how important is language to these questions; do texts have to be monolingual or does transnationality require an engagement with more than one language? We will work together as experts in different cultural contexts to explore these ideas in relation to specific texts.

Syllabus:

Term Three

29.04.19 Introduction JL

06.05.19 Bank Holiday

13.05.19 France and Americanization: Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless (1960) Watch it before class on BoB here: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/00020428?bcast=5333460

JL

20.05.19 Germany and Americanization: Wim Wenders, The American Friend (1977) Watch it before class on BoB here: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/00107AA5?bcast=114913222

JL

27.05.19 Bank Holiday

03.06.19 Imagining the colonial encounter: Albert Camus, L’étranger (1942) [The Outsider]; Le premier homme (1994) [The First Man] - extracts

MS

10.06.19 Imagining the (post)colonial encounter: Régis Wargnier, Indochine (1992); Claire Denis, White Material (2010)

MS

17.06.19 Enlightenment perspectives (i) France and England Set text: Voltaire, Lettres philosophiques (1734) [Letters concerning the English Nation]

AL

24.06.19 Enlightenment perspectives (ii) Persia and France Set text: Montesquieu, Lettres persanes (1721 rev. ed. 1754) [Persian Letters]

AL

01.07.19 Colonialisms: Gilberto Freyre, The Portuguese and the Tropics (1961) and Peter Weiss, Song of the Lusitanian Bogey (1969) – extracts (available on Moodle)

PSB

08.07.19 Emigrations: João Canijo, Ganhar a Vida (2001) and Ruben Alves, The Gilded Cage (2013) Available on DVD: please watch before the class.

PSB

Assessment:

1 x 1000 word assessment task to be submitted by Monday 03 June 2019. This is worth 25% of the mark for the module.

1 x 1000 word assessment task to be submitted by Monday 24 June 2019. This is worth 25% of the mark for the module.

1 x 2500 word essay to be submitted by Monday 29 July 2019. This is worth 50% of the mark for the module.

75% attendance requirement, worth 0% of the mark for the module. This element must be passed.

Essential Texts:

Jean-Luc Godard, À bout de souffle / Breathless. Available on BoB here : https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/00020428?bcast=5333460

Wim Wenders, Der amerikanische Freund / The American Friend (available on DVD); an on BoB here: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/00107AA5?bcast=114913222

Kristin Ross, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies (MIT Press, 1996)

Albert Camus, L’étranger (1942) (Preferred edition: Folio); [The Outsider, Penguin, translated by Joseph Laredo]

Albert Camus, Le premier homme (Gallimard, 1994); [The First Man, Penguin, translated by Davis Hapgood] (extracts will be available on Moodle)

Edward Said, Imperialism and Culture (Chatto & Windus, 1993)

Régis Wargnier, Indochine (1992) (available on DVD)

Claire Denis, White Material (2010) (available on DVD)

Voltaire, Lettres philosophiques ou lettres anglaises (Flammarion, 1994 – or any complete edition); [Letters concerning the English Nation, Oxford World Classics, translated by Nicholas Cronk, 2009]

Montesquieu, Lettres persanes (Folio classique or Flammarion editions – or any other complete edition); [Persian Letters, Oxford World Classics, translated by Margaret Mauldon, 2008]

Gilberto Freyre, The Portuguese and the Tropics (extracts will be available on Moodle)

Peter Weiss, Song of the Lusitanian Bogey (extracts will be available on Moodle)

João Canijo, Ganhar a Vida (available on DVD)

Ruben Alves, The Gilded Cage (available on DVD)

Almeida, Miguel Vale de. “Tristes Luso-Tropiques: the roots and ramifications of Luso-Tropicalist discourses”, in An earth-colored sea:

“race”, culture and the politics of identity in the post-colonial Portuguese-speaking world (New York: Berghahn, 2004)

Pereira, Victor. “The Papers of State Power. The Passport and the Control of Mobility”, in Luís Trindade (ed.), The Making of Modern Portugal (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013)