SESSION 1: TUESDAY JAN 28: Sara Gómez Within Revolutionary Cuban Cinema
In class: Excerpts from “For an Imperfect Cinema”, Julio García Espinosa
Excerpts from The Hour of Furnaces (Pino Solandas and Getino)
Excerpts from Santiago Álvarez’s documentaries
Screening: Sara Gómez: An Afro-Cuban Filmmaker (Alessandra Muller, 2005)
Salut les cubains (Agnes Varda 1962): https://archive.org/details/salut-les-cubains
TOPICS SESSIONS 1-3: OPPOSITIONAL GAZE, INTERSECTIONALITY, DECOLONIAL FEMINISM
SESSION 2: TUESDAY FEB 4: Sara Gómez’s Documentaries introduced by Susan Lord
Screening: Iré a Santiago (1964)
Guanabacoa: Crónica de mi familia (1966)
Mi aporte (1972)
Una isla para Miguel (1968)
In class: Q&A with Susan Lord, Film and Media Professor at Queens University
Readings: Devyn Spence Benson. “Sara Gómez: Afrocubana (Afro-Cuban Women’s) Activism after 1961”
Excerpts from Kelsey Wardlaw. “Filmación Intencional: The Relationship Between Race and Space in the Works of Sara Gómez”
SESSION 3: TUESDAY FEB 11: Black Cubans
Screening: One Way or Another (1974)
The Other Island (1968) Excerpts
Readings: Ruby Rich: “One Way or Another: Sara Gómez and the Cuban Experience”
Alison Fraunhar, “Mulata Cubana: The Problematics of National Allegory”
First round of presentations
SESSION 4: TUESDAY FEB 25: Cinema Novo and Aesthetics of Hunger
Readings: Glauber Rocha,“Aesthetics of Hunger”
Randall Johnson. “Introduction: Cinema Novo, the State, and Modern Brazilian Cinema”
Darlene J. Sadlier, “Cinema Novo Redux” in A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film
Screening: Cinema Novo, Eryk Rocha (2016) Excerpts
Glauber O Film, O Labirinto do Brasil (Silvio Tendler, 2003) Excerpts
TOPICS FOR SESSIONS 4-8: METAPHOR AND ALEGORY, DECOLONIZATION, AFRO-BRAZILIANS
SESSION 5: TUESDAY MAR 4: Glauber Rocha’s Documentary Work
Screening: Maranhão 66 (1966)
US Propaganda Film about Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo: 1932 film, 1938 film, 1943 film Inter-American Affairs,1960 film PAN AM
Di Glauber/Cavalcanti (Glauber Rocha – 1977)
Readings: Glauber Rocha, “The Revolution is an Aesthetics”
Darlene J. Sadlier: “Documenting Death: Di Cavalcanti and Glauber, o filme”
Second round of presentations
SESSION 6: TUESDAY MAR 11: Fishermen and Candomblé
Screening: Arrial Do Cabo (Mário Carneiro, Paulo César Saraceni, 1960)
Barravento (1962)
Readings: Glauber Rocha, “The Cinematographic Revolution”
Excerpts from Bob Stam: Tropical Multiculturalism
Dilek Önder: “Ambiguities and Double Voices in Barravento”
Third round of presentations
SESSION 7: TUESDAY MAR 18: The Sertão
Screening: Black God, White Devil (1964)
Antonio das Mortes (1969) Excerpts
Readings: Mario Zupanovic: “Theatricality and performativity in Glauber Rocha’s cinema novo films”
Ivana Ventes: “Politics and Aesthetics of Myth in Black God, White Devil”
Fourth round of presentations
SESSION 8: TUESDAY MAR 25: El Dorado
Before class: Martin Scorsese on Glauber Rocha
Screening: Enthranced Earth (1967)
Cabezas Cortadas (1970)
Readings:Glauber Rocha: “An Aesthetics of Dreams”
Robert Stam: “Land in Anguish”
Optional: Ismail Xavier: “Land in Anguish: Allegory and Agony” in Allegories of Underdevelopment
Fifth round of presentations
SESSION 9: TUESDAY APRIL 1: Patricio Guzmán and Salvador Allende’s government
In class: Excerpts from Solanas and Getino, “Towards a Third Cinema”
Screening: The Battle of Chile, Part I: The Insurrection of Bourgeoisie (1975)
The Battle of Chile Part III
Readings: Julianne Burton: “Patricio Guzmán: Politics and the Documentary in People’s Chile”
Sixth round of presentations
TOPICS LESSONS 9-14: HISTORICAL MEMORY, POSTMEMORY, TIME-IMAGE, NARRATIVE COMMUNITIES, COLLECTIVE WITNESSING
SESSION 10: TUESDAY APRIL 8: The Memory of the Coup
Screening: Chile, The Obstinate Memory (1997)
Readings: Kaitlin M. Murphy. “The Materiality of Memory: Touching, Seeing, and Being the Past in Patricio Guzmán’s Chile, Memoria Obstinada”
Optional: Jeffrey Skoler: “Chile: La Memoria Obstanada, (Chile: Obstinant Memory), Patricio Guzman”
Seventh round of presentations
SESSION 11: TUESDAY APRIL 22: Stars and Bones
Screening: Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
Readings: Conversation Between Frederick Wiseman and Patricio Guzman (EPK)
William Guynn. “Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for The Light”
Eighth round of presentations
SESSION 12: TUESDAY APRIL 29: Sea and Bones
Screening: The Pearl Button (2015)
Readings: Tehsome Gabriel, “Third Cinema Updated”
Ninth round of presentations
SESSION 13: TUESDAY MAY 6: The Popular Revolt and Guest Speaker PATRICIO GUZMÁN
Screening: My Imaginary Country (2022)
Guest Speaker: Patricio Guzmán
SESSION 14: TUESDAY MAY 13 Student’s conference
Presentation of the course website and students’ final papers
