HVM 108: The History of Spanish Cinema (SPAN 325)
Course Description
The cinema constitutes the most popular artistic expression of the XXth century. Is expressive strength and narrative capacity have converted it into the most important means of moving the sensitivity of the modern spectator. In the case of the Spanish cinema, film production provides us with a splendid opportunity to fully understand the reality of our
country in our century, from two of the most interesting view points, as historical documentary and also as aesthetic expression. In this way, objective reality, critical attitude, ideological postulations and artistic creativity, etc. are elements to be discussed and studied in the realms of this course, all dealt with from a temporal evolution which begins
with the origins of the complexity of Spanish cinematographic creation to the present-day.
Course Reflective Narrative
During the Fall semester 2012 I completed HVM 108: The History of Spanish Cinema, which is equivalent to SPAN 303. This course meets the MLO 3, because it has to do with cultural knowledge, the class is about the history of the Spanish cinema. For this class we follow a timetable, beginning with the silent cinema and ending with the 90’s. We went over silent cinema, cinema during the Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship, the 40’s cinema, 50’s cinema, 60’s cinema, 70’s cinema; end of the dictatorship, transition and democracy, 80’s; the democracy, and 90’s.
For class we learned about the different decades and the different cinema, we watched some movies. We had to write papers about some of the movies, using what we learned about the time that the movie was made and our opinion on the movie. We were graded on class participation, the papers that we had to turn in for some movies that we watched and a group presentation at the end of the semester.
We studied some of the great Spanish directors: Buñuel, Bardem, Berlanga, Iciar Bollain, Carlos Saura, Almodóvar and Amenábar. We watched some full movies and since we did not have the time to go over everything, sometimes we just went over the most important of those decades. I had watch a movie or two by Almodóvar during this class, I had the opportunity to learn a lot about him and his movies. He was very important during the La Movida Madrileña (The Madrilenian scene), I also learned about this in class. Movies are a way of representing what was going on in a country during a certain time so it was very interesting to learn history through the cinema.
At first I though that this class was going to be a class about watching movies and just enjoying those movies, which I did but there was so much more to it. I learned a lot of history in this class which was minimal to all the history there is to Spain. I would like to continue learning Spain’s history and cinema; continuing to keep up to date with the new cinema.
Course Work Evidence
Aurora la esperanza (reflexión)
Historía del cine censura
Almodóvar
Las sue tienen sue servir (reflexión)
The cinema constitutes the most popular artistic expression of the XXth century. Is expressive strength and narrative capacity have converted it into the most important means of moving the sensitivity of the modern spectator. In the case of the Spanish cinema, film production provides us with a splendid opportunity to fully understand the reality of our
country in our century, from two of the most interesting view points, as historical documentary and also as aesthetic expression. In this way, objective reality, critical attitude, ideological postulations and artistic creativity, etc. are elements to be discussed and studied in the realms of this course, all dealt with from a temporal evolution which begins
with the origins of the complexity of Spanish cinematographic creation to the present-day.
Course Reflective Narrative
During the Fall semester 2012 I completed HVM 108: The History of Spanish Cinema, which is equivalent to SPAN 303. This course meets the MLO 3, because it has to do with cultural knowledge, the class is about the history of the Spanish cinema. For this class we follow a timetable, beginning with the silent cinema and ending with the 90’s. We went over silent cinema, cinema during the Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship, the 40’s cinema, 50’s cinema, 60’s cinema, 70’s cinema; end of the dictatorship, transition and democracy, 80’s; the democracy, and 90’s.
For class we learned about the different decades and the different cinema, we watched some movies. We had to write papers about some of the movies, using what we learned about the time that the movie was made and our opinion on the movie. We were graded on class participation, the papers that we had to turn in for some movies that we watched and a group presentation at the end of the semester.
We studied some of the great Spanish directors: Buñuel, Bardem, Berlanga, Iciar Bollain, Carlos Saura, Almodóvar and Amenábar. We watched some full movies and since we did not have the time to go over everything, sometimes we just went over the most important of those decades. I had watch a movie or two by Almodóvar during this class, I had the opportunity to learn a lot about him and his movies. He was very important during the La Movida Madrileña (The Madrilenian scene), I also learned about this in class. Movies are a way of representing what was going on in a country during a certain time so it was very interesting to learn history through the cinema.
At first I though that this class was going to be a class about watching movies and just enjoying those movies, which I did but there was so much more to it. I learned a lot of history in this class which was minimal to all the history there is to Spain. I would like to continue learning Spain’s history and cinema; continuing to keep up to date with the new cinema.
Course Work Evidence
Aurora la esperanza (reflexión)
Historía del cine censura
Almodóvar
Las sue tienen sue servir (reflexión)