Objectives

• To deepen appreciation for a range of cinematic approaches
• To further develop expressive abilities, both orally and in writing
• To complement the previous semester's focus on latino images in film through critical reflection on the representation of English speakers (Anglos) within Hispanic cinematic traditions
• To contextualize the work of Latin American artists within their regional and national traditions
• To chart the evolving relationship between Hollywood and third-world filmmaking from Latin America
• To chart some of the distinctive contributions of women filmmakers over the past three decades
• To reflect on the implications of globalization and transnationalism for the future of cinema
• To prepare students for further coursework related to Latin American culture and the arts
• This course or the preceding course in the sequence, "Latino Images in U.S. Film," can be used to satisfy either the C (Mont111g) or the A (Mont 110g) common requirements
• This course counts towards the Latin American and Latino Studies concentration and multidisciplinary major, and also towards the Spanish major as an elective, subject to approval of the departmental chair

Expectations

• Attend regularly and on time
• Check periodically for supplementary information posted on the course website at http://college.holycross.edu/faculty/cstone/mont111g/main.htm
• Contribute actively to class discussions, having completed the assigned materials and prepared questions and/or comments for class discussion
• Contribute positively to class dynamics: asking questions when confused, listening actively and engaging with others, respecting the rights of all to develop their initial impressions and opinions into systematic, evidence-based arguments
• Submit assignments on time or make arrangements beforehand with the professor and/or the appropriate class dean
• Familiarize yourself with the rules regarding plagiarism, use of quotations and acknowledgement of sources (see ch. 7 of A Short Guide to Writing About Film for a concise overview of these issues). A helpful web product for organizing bibliographic information, RefWorks, is available through Dinand Library
• Seek assistance from the Writer's Workshop or during office hours as needed. It is always appropriate (indeed, encouraged) to discuss your questions, claims, evidence and arguments with others outside of class. Asking for help with the more technical aspects of the writing process is also encouraged. But this help will only be of lasting utility if you are engaged in the self-correction process. In other words, do not rely on others to do your work for you
• Conscientously revise your first drafts to address common stylistic and structural errors (see They Say, I Say and ch. 5 of A Short Guide to Writing About Film for tips on effective writing)
• All scheduled screening will be in Stein 314. Arrange to view films in the MultiMedia Resource Center (MRC) if you are unable to attend one or more scheduled screenings. Ask at the front desk to check the reserve shelf under Prof. Stone for the assigned films. The MRC has both individual viewing stations and small rooms for group viewings. Please do not remove films from the MRC

Textbooks

• Chesa Boudin, Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America. Scribner, 2009
• Timothy J. Corrigan. A Short Guide to Writing About Film. 8th ed. Longman, 2012
• Michael Fairbanks, Malik Fal, Marcela Escobari-Rose, and Elizabeth Hooper, eds. In the River They Swim: Essays from Around the World on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty. West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania: Templeton Press, 2009

• Doña Bárbara, Mexico, 1943, 138 min., b & w, prod. co. CLASA Films Mundiales, dir. Fernando de Fuentes, cin. Alex Phillips, based on the 1929 novel by Rómulo Gallegos. Setting: Llanos del Orinoco, Venezuela. Screening: Wednesday, 13 Feb., 7:00 PM, Stein 314
  • "The combined talents of star María Félix and director Fernando De Fuentes resulted in the can't-miss romantic drama Doña Bárbara. Félix is cast as the title character, a rich landowner who has accumulated her fortune through the kindness of strangers--handsome, amorous strangers to whom she has sold her affections. Renouncing true love in favor of material gains, Doña Bárbara ultimately falls desperately in love with neighboring rancher Santos Luzardo (Julián Soler). Her euphoria evaporates when she learns that Santos is interested only in her young daughter Marisela (María Marqués). Completed in 1943, Doña Bárbara earned several industry awards in Mexico, and not a few similar honors elsewhere." (Hal Erickson, Rovi)
• Rosa Blanca, aka The White Rose, Mexico, 1961 (released in 1972), b & w, 100 min., prod. co. CLASA Films Mundiales, dir. Roberto Gavaldón, prod. Felipe Subervielle, cin. Gabriel Figueroa, ed. Gloria Schoemann. Cast includes Ignacio López Tarso (Jacinto Yáñez), Reinhold Olszewski, Rita Macedo, Begoña Palacios. Based on the novel of the same name by Bruno Traven. Setting: Veracruz, Mexico and Los Angeles, US. Screening: Monday, 18 Feb., 7:00 PM, Stein 314
  • "Certain topics in Mexican history have not tolerated criticism and consequently have been considered taboo by filmmakers. Among them is the period during the 1930s when vast tracks of agricultural land were appropriated by powerful oil interests. Based on a story by Bruno Traven, Rosa Blanca broached that issue and was banned in Mexico until 1972 and is still one of the country's most noted cases of censorship, in part because of Gavaldón's status as an established commercial director. The film centers on a proud farmer, Jacinto Yáñez, and his battle with an American-owned oil company. When Yáñez refuses to sell the rich, fertile land his family has tilled for generations, the company hatches a plot to lure Yáñez to Los Angeles where he mysteriously disappears. Once the defiant patriarch is out of the way, the bulldozers start rolling in. The highly romanticized imagery that Gavaldón uses to represent the Yáñez farm makes its destruction all the more poignant and pointed as an idealized Mexico gives way to a harsh, modern reality" (UCLA Film and Video Archive)
• Como agua para chocolate, aka Like Water for Chocolate, Mexico, 1991, color, 114 min., prod. co. Cinevista, dir. and prod. Alfonso Arau, cin. Emmanuel Lubezki, comp. Leo Brouwer. Cast includes Lumi Cavazos (Tita), Marco Leonardi (Pedro), Regina Torné (Mamá Elena). Based on the novel by Laura Esquivel. Setting: US/Mexico border. Screening: Wednesday, 20 Feb., 7:00 PM, Stein 314
  • "Based on the best-selling novel by Laura Esquivel, this internationally popular romantic fable from Mexico centers on a young woman who discovers that her cooking has magical effects. The tale's heroine, Tita, is the youngest of three daughters in a traditional Mexican family. Bound by tradition to remain unmarried while caring for her aging mother, Tita nevertheless falls in love with a handsome young man named Pedro. Pedro returns her affection, but he cannot overcome her family's disapproval, and he instead marries Tita's elder sister. The lovestruck young woman is brutally disappointed, and her sadness has such force that it infects her cooking: all who eat it her feel her heartbreak with the same intensity." (Judd Blaise, Rovi)
• New cinema of Latin America, 1983, 85 min., prod. co. Channel 4 (United Kingdom), dir. Michael Chanan. Screenings: part I, Wednesday, 27 Feb., 7:00 PM, Stein 314; part II, individually or in small groups in the MRC
  • "Michael Chanan's two-part documentary on 'New Cinema of Latin America,' made for the United Kingdom's Channel 4 in 1983, is now an historic document of the first twenty-five years of a continental movement which revolutionised cinema. Featured film-makers include Fernando Birri, Tomás Gutiérrez.Alea, Julio García Espinosa, Octavio Getino, Jorge Sanjinés, Jorge Silva and Marta Rodríguez, Carlos Diegues, Mario Handler and others, with contributions from writers and critics including Mario Benedetti, Héctor Schmucler, Ambrosio Fornet and Ernesto Cardenal. Part I, Cinema of the Humble, traces the evolution of its theoretical and aesthetic positions, and focuses on the development of cinema in Cuba and Nicaragua. Part II, The Long Road, examines the development of new forms of representation, repression against filmmakers, and the emergence of a new women's cinema." (ArtFilms)
• Yawar Mallku, aka Blood of the Condor, Bolivia, 1969, 96 min., prod. co. Ukamao Limitada, dir. Jorge Sanjinés, cin. Antonio Eguino. Cast includes the communal leader of Kaata, Marcelino Yanahuaya (Ignacio Mallku), a female miner from Huanuni, Benedicta Huanaca (Paulina Yanahuaya), a male miner from Huanani, Vicente Vernero (Sixto). Settings: a rural village in the Bolivian altiplano and the city of La Paz. Screening: Wednesday, 13 March, 7:00 PM, Stein 314
  • "This Bolivian film was banned both in Bolivia and the United States. It tells a quasi-historical narrative of a Peace Corps medical clinic that was sterilizing, without their knowledge or consent, Quechua Indian women who had come in for treatment. While the film is a dramatization, it is based on actual events which occurred in Bolivia in 1968 when the government imposed, with the help of the United States, a population control program. Jorge Sanjinés, through interviews and fictional footage, straightforwardly tells the Indians' story while creating a sophisticated commentary on the place of Indian culture in Bolivia. In 1970, Peace Corps were forced out of Bolivia due to rising anti-U.S. sentiment fueled by the film's release. Blood of the Condor was a vanguard of the Latin American cinema revolution and remains a central text in the history of anti-imperialist thought." (Brian Whitener, Rovi)
• Batalla de Chile: Lucha de un pueblo sin armas, aka Battle of Chile: Struggle of an Unarmed People. Pt. 1. La insurrección de la burguesía, aka The insurrection of the bourgeoisie, Chile & Cuba, 1974, 96 min., prod. cos. Equipo Tercer Año, Chris Marker, ICAIC (Instituto Cubano de Cine), dir. Patricio Guzmán, cin. Jorge Müller, ed. Pedro Chaskel. Setting: Chile, mostly the city of Santiago. Screening: Wednesday, 20 March, 7:00 PM, Stein 314
  • "On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende's democratically elected Chilean government was overthrown in a bloody coup by General Augusto Pinochet's army. Patricio Guzmán and five colleagues had been filming the political developments in Chile throughout the nine months leading up to that day. The bombing of the Presidential Palace, in which Allende died, would now become the ending for Guzmán's seminal documentary The Battle of Chile (1975-76), an epic chronicle of that country's open and peaceful socialist revolution, and of the violent counter-revolution against it. [...] Part 1: The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (96 minutes) examines the escalation of rightist opposition following the left's unexpected victory in Congressional elections held in March, 1973. Finding that democracy would not stop Allende's socialist policies, the right-wing shifted its tactics from the polls to the streets. The film follows months of activity as a variety of increasingly violent tactics are used by the right to weaken the government and provoke a crisis." (ICARUS Films)
• Miss Mary, Argentina/United States, 1986, 106 min., co-production by GEA Cinematográfica and New World Pictures, dir. María Luisa Bemberg, cin. Miguel Rodríguez. Cast includes Julie Christie (Mary Mulligan), Nacha Guevara (Mecha), Eduardo Pavlovsky (Alfredo), Nora Zinsky (Teresa), Donald McIntyre (Johnny), Sofía Viruboff (Carolina). Setting: Buenos Aires, Argentina--both the province (where the Pampas are located) and the capital city. Screening: Wednesday, 10 April, 7:00 PM, Stein 314
  • "The action develops in a very large Argentine country estate, at the beginning of the summer of 1938. This is the story of a family, a symbol of the oligarchy, which for more than 50 years rules the country as if were its own ranch: detached from [...] reality, ignoring the rumours of a world that is changing its structures, and indifferent to everything that does not concern them. [...] They dream a dream from which they shall wake up abruptly in 1945 with the arrival of Juan Domingo Perón. This story, which takes place between 1938 and 1945, shall be remembered by a singular woman, the English governess “Miss Mary,” a role played by Julie Christie. It is a living and committed chronicle for it shows sexual repression as a reflection of an inflexible and patriarchal society and at the same time as the starting point of all repression." (Mary Luisa Bemberg: Filmmaker)
• Jardín del Edén, aka The Garden of Eden, France/Mexico/Canada, 1994, 104 min., prod. cos. Verseau Intl., Macondo Cine Video, IMCINE, dir. María Novaro, cin. Eric Edwards. Cast includes Renée Coleman (Jane), Bruno Bichir (Felipe Reyes), Gabriela Roel (Serena), Rosario Sagrav (Elizabeth), Alan Ciangheroti (Julián), Joseph Culp (Frank). Setting: US/Mexico border. Screening: Monday, 15 April, 7:00 PM, Stein 314
  • "Three women seek their fortune in a small border town in this drama from acclaimed, Ariel-winning Mexican director Maria Novaro. In the shadow of the 15-mile-long steel wall that stands on the edge of Tijuana, Serena, Jane, and Elizabeth each take shelter in search of a better life. Serena is a widowed mother of three, Jane is an American searching for her long lost brother, and Elizabeth is a Mexican-American artist who has come to the border town in search of her roots. In the town that is prison to some and refuge to others, all three women will experience something new as they discover that even in the stark heat of the desert, a garden can bloom." (Jason Buchanan, Rovi)
• Crónicas, aka Chronicles, Mexico/Ecuador, 2004, 108 min., co-production by Producciones Anhelo, Cabezahueca, Tequila Gang, dir. and script Sebastián Cordero, cin. Enrique Chediak, comp. Antonio Pinto, ed. Luis Carballar. Cast includes: John Leguizamo (Manolo Bonilla), Leonor Watling (Marisa Iturralde), Damián Alcazar (Vinicio Cepeda), José MaríanYazpik (Iván Suárez), Camilo Luzuriaga (Capitán Bolívar Rojas). Setting: the city of Babahayo, in the coastal lowlands of Ecuador. Screening: Wednesday, 24 April, 7:00 PM, Stein 314
  • "Inspired by Colombian killer Luis Alfredo Garavito's grisly six-year reign of terror, Ecuadorian filmmaker Sebastian Cordero's thriller revolves around a Miami-based TV reporter who tries to manipulate a breaking story involving a serial child-killer only to find he's not the one pulling the strings. On-air reporter Manolo Bonilla (John Leguizamo, in his first Spanish-language role), producer Marisa Iturralde (Leonor Watling) and cameraman Iván Suárez (José María Yazpik) all work for the American Spanish-language tabloid-TV show 'One Hour with the Truth,' hosted by Marisa's husband, Victor Hugo Puente (Alfred Molina). While on location in Ecuador, where three children have been murdered by the notorious 'Beast of Babahoyo,' they inadvertently capture a scene of brutal mob violence. [...] Like the reporter in the similar Mean Season (1985), Manolo must eventually confront the growing divide between his conscience and his ambitions." (Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide)
• Sleep Dealer, Mexico/United States, 2008, 89 min., prod. cos. Starlight Film Financing, Likely Story, This is That, dir. and ed. Alex Rivera, script Alex Rivera and David Riker, prod. Anthony Bregman, cin. Lisa Rinzler, comp. Tomandandy. Cast includes: Luis Fernando Peña (Memo Cruz), Leonor Varela (Luz Martínez), Jacob Vargas (Rudy Ramírez). Setting: US/Mexico border. Screening: Thursday, 4 April at 4:00 pm in Seelos Theater (to be followed by Q & A with the director)
  • "The best science-fiction film of the ‘00s is Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2008)—the next great science-fiction film of that decade is Silent Light (2007). The interesting thing is that both are set in Mexico. But Silent Light is about aliens in an alien world, and Sleep Dealer is about humans in a post-human world. Rivera, a Peruvian-born digital-media artist who is currently based in NY, not only attempts to imagine the terminal point for [...] the workers of our globalized, post-industrial moment, but also processes science-fiction cinema in the neoliberal period—which, as David Harvey points out in A Brief History of Neoliberalism, began in the mid ‘70s and is alive and (not so) well today. Sleep Dealer is kind of a small-budget remix of big-budget space/future spectacles. The appropriators have been appropriated." (Charles Mudede, CinemaScope)
    
• América, Puerto Rico, 2011, 90 min., prod. co. Isla Films, dir. Sonia Fritz, cin. Willie Berrios, comp. Daniel Hamuy. Cast includes: Lymari Nadal (América), Yancey Arias (Correa), Edward James Olmos (Mr. Irving). Based on the novel America’s Dream by Esmeralda Santiago. Setting: the Puerto Rican island of Vieques and New York City. Screening: Monday, 29 April, 7:00 PM, Stein 314
  • "While the setting of her Caribbean beach village seems picture-perfect, América's life is anything but peaceful. When their daughter runs away, América's abusive lover unleashes his rage against her. Leaving everything behind, América escapes to New York City hoping for a new life. There she works as a nanny for a wealthy family and at night in a laundry. She befriends three nannies--a Mexican, a Colombian and a Dominican--and with their help and support from relatives in the Bronx, América is determined to bring her daughter back to her." (Anonymous, IMDB)

LIST OF OTHER LATIN AMERICAN FILMS IN HOLY CROSS COLLECTIONS

Global Society Description
References to living in a “global society” are part of our daily discourse. What, however, does this phrase mean, and how did we get here? What are the benefits and costs of the circulation of goods, services, ideas and peoples among nations and cultures? How do cultural differences compete and enrich life worldwide? Students and faculty will explore together the moral implications of living in an increasingly global world as well as the many political, economic, social and cultural ramifications of this universal process of globalization.

Global Society Common Events (mandatory attendance--see below)

• Wednesday, March 20, 4:00 pm, St. Joseph’s Chapel: Marcela Escobari-Rose, executive director of Harvard's Center for International Development, will speak on Entreprise Solutions to Global Poverty (sponsored by the Ciocca Office of Entrepreneurial Studies)
• Thursday, April 4, 4:00 pm, Seelos Theater: 18th Annual Worcester Latin American Film Festival presents a screening of the film Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera, 2008), to be followed by a Q & A with the director (sponsored by Centro las Américas and various Worcester Consortium Colleges, including Latin American and Latino Studies at Holy Cross). Other festival films to be shown at Cinema 320 at Clark University (see online festival schedule)
• Thursday May 2, 5:00 pm: End of Year Banquet (sponsored by Montserrat Global Studies)

Montserrat policies regarding common events: A number of cluster and/or seminar events are listed on your syllabus and therefore known to you from the beginning of each semester.  These events may take place outside of normal class time and may appear to interfere with other student commitments, most notably athletics. These Montserrat common events are an important academic component of the course, and the policy, developed in conjunction with the Athletics Department, is that they take priority over sports practice or lifting time (but not games), just as a class meeting would. This is the rule that your coaches will apply. When in doubt, please speak with your seminar professor, one of the Global Society faculty, your coach, Rose Shea, Associate Athletic Director, or Denise Schaeffer, Montserrat Director.

Other Events of Global Interest (all students must attend at least one of the following events and hand in a brief 1-page response before the end of the semester)

• Tuesday, January 22, 4:00 pm, Mary Chapel: Multifaith Celebration, to be followed by a reception in Loyola Ballroom with foods from many cultures (sponsored by Chaplain's Office)
• Monday, February 11, 7:00 pm, Hogan 406-09: Asian Studies Lunar New Year Celebration (sponsored by Asian Studies)
• Wednesday, February 13, 4:00 pm, Stein 526: Spanish Poetry Workshop (sponsored by the Spanish Club)
• Thursday, February 21, 4:30 pm, Rehm Library, Smith Hall: Dalia Mogahed, executive director and senior analyist for the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, will speak on Women After the Arab Spring Revolution: Rights and Religion (sponsored by the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture)
• Monday, February 25, 4:00 pm, Rehm Library, Smith Hall: Holy Cross alumna Jo-Marie Burt, director of Latin American Studies and co-director of the Center for Global Studies at George Mason University, will speak on Prosecuting War Crimes: How Latin America is Reckoning with its Violent Past. Dr Burt has conducted research for the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and is the author of Silencing Civil Society: Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru (co-sponsored by Peace and Conflict Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies.)
• Tuesday, February 26, 4:00 pm, Rehm Library, Smith Hall: Benedict Carton, associate professor of History at George Mason University, will speak on Apartheid & its Legacies: The Struggle for Democracy and Impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa (sponsored by Africana Studies)
• Tuesday, February 26, 7:30 pm, Rehm Library, Smith Hall: Kelly Askin, senior legal officer for International Justice in the Open Society Justice Initiative, will speak on Rape as a Weapon of War. She is author of "War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals" and the three-volume treatise "Women and International Human Rights Law." (sponsored by the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture) Note: This event was rescheduled from Fall 2012.
• Wednesday, March 13, 7:00 pm, Rehm Library, Smith Hall: panel discussion on U.S. Use of Drones: Moral, Legal, or Effective? featuring panelists David Cole, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and author of "The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable," Avery Plaw, associate professor of political science at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and author of "Targeting Terrorists: A License to Kill," and Gregory Johnsen, Near East Studies Scholar at Princeton University and author of "The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia." (co-sponsored by the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture and Peace and Conflict Studies)
• Thursday, March 21, 6:00 pm: Africana Studies Expo and Culture Night includes Dinner with African food, AFST course expo and Africana Music DJ (sponored by Africana Studies)
• Tuesday, March 26, time and place TBD: Alvaro Jarrin, visiting assistant professor of Anthropology at Union College, will speak on Towards a Biopolitics of Beauty: Eugenics, Citizenship and Plastic Surgery in Brazil (Co-sponsored by CISS, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sociology/Anthropology.)
• Thursday, April 4, 4:30 pm., Rehm Library, Smith Hall: Anya Peterson Royce, Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature at Indiana University, will speak on Journeys of Transformation: Isthmus Zapotec Mexican beliefs and practices surrounding death (sponsored by the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture) This lecture is a part of Catholics and Cultures: Understanding the religious lives and practices of Catholics around the world.
• Wednesday, April 10, time and place TBD. Rev. Michael Gillgannon, recipient of an honorary degree from Holy Cross in 2004 and founder and director of Campus Ministry for the Archdiocese of La Paz, Bolivia. (Co-sponsored by Religious Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies.)
• Saturday, April 20, Hogan Ballroom, College of the Holy Cross. Noche Latina: LASO hosts its annual cultural night during which students interpret dances, poems or other artistic performances that come from diverse cultures of Latin America and other Spanish-speaking countries. (Sponsored by Latin American Student Organization.)
• Thursday, April 18, 4:00 pm, Rehm Library, Smith Hall: Robert Audi, the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at University of Notre Dame, will speak on The Problem of Evil: Can Faith Be Rational in the Face of the Horrific Evils of this World? (Sponsored by the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.)
• Friday, April 26, 10:30am-12:30pm, Hogan. LALS student presentations at the Holy Cross Academic Conference. (Sponsored by Latin American and Latino Studies.)
  
• Saturday, May 5 at 1:00 pm, Hogan Courtyard: Cinco de Mayo celebration with live music and lots of good food (sponsored by Latin American and Latino Studies)

Global Society Cluster Faculty and Seminar Titles for Spring 2013
John Anderson – Competition and Cooperation (Powerball, Politics &Poker/ Battle, Bowerbirds, & Bargains) (MWF 10am)
Miles Cahill – Macroeconomics &Inequality (Economic Growth and Disparity/ Economic Cycles & Pay Gaps) (TR 9:30/11)
Mary Conley – Colonialism and Freedom (Reacting to the Colonial Past/ Enduring Legacies of Empire) (MTR: 1:00)
Diane Fox – Beyond Hollywood and Headlines (Viet Nam: The Country/ Muslim Worlds: Peoples and Histories)
Claudia Ross/ Baozhang He – Chinese Cultures Old & New (Basics of Traditional Chinese Culture/ Screening Chinese Culture)
Maria Rodrigues – Global Crises (Crises & Individual Heroes/ Crisis & Organized Response)  (WF: 12:30, 2:00)
Cynthia Stone – Hollywood Meets Latin America (Latino Images in US Film/ Anglo Images in Latin Am Film)
Jonathan Young – Traversing the Open Globe (Traveling to the Unknown/ The Unknown Comes Home)

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