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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
UAB Barcelona Summer School

Contemporary Spain through the Eye of the Movie Camera (taught in Spanish)

UAB

The course offers a general approach to Spanish contemporary culture and history from the postwar period until now through its cinematographic self-representation. The selection of movies analyzed in the classes intends to be representative of recent Spanish history and cover the main social, political, economic and cultural aspects of country’s reality. In the same way, this selection tries to attend to the variety of the Spanish cinema over that period, integrating both auteur and commercial or genre films. Our methodological approach is based on the multidisciplinary perspective of comparative and intermedia studies that focus on visual culture. This kind of approach permits a deeper and comprehensive understanding of the contemporary world and has become indispensable in the field of Humanities and Communication studies. Our main learning goal in this course is to analyze, review and criticize the role that these cinematographic representations have had in the construction of identity, contrasting them with the personal experience of foreign and national students, to offer a more inclusive, extensive and complex vision of the Spanish cultural diversity.

Courses generally have little or no prerequisite knowledge required for a given topic, however if students face any doubts, we recommend they contact course professors to clarify.

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