Dictatorship Cinema in South America - 4 Weeks

Tu+Fri, 6-8pm ET
4 weeks, Feb 11- March 7

This course examines USA-backed dictatorships in South America through film. We will pay particular attention to the themes of amnesia and memory, asking what cinema can tell us about how political and social relationships were engineered around consumption and debt during and after dictatorship. We will watch films and discuss texts from Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Film directors include Albertina Carri, Lucrecia Martel, Patricio Guzmán, and Glauber Rocha.

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Instructor: George Allen holds a PhD in Spanish & Portuguese from UC Irvine, and writes about film, media, and literatures that disrupt perceptions of colonialism, modernity, and globalization in Latin America. His dissertation examines visual culture in post-dictatorship Chile and Argentina. He currently researches aesthetics, derivatives, and the creation of risk.