Unit name | Images of Power in Lusophone Culture |
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Unit code | HISP20092 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. King |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This Unit offers an introduction to the study of visual culture in the context of the Lusophone world, focusing on the connections between power and cinematic and photographic images. Through close analysis of a range of films and photography, balancing theoretical frameworks with a consideration of historical and political contexts, students will be encouraged to think about the politics of image making. What is an image? How do images reinforce or contest hierarchies of power? Among the themes and topics covered by the unit are: tropicalismo and hybrid aesthetics in Brazilian Cinema Novo; images of technology and nature in modernist photography of the 1950s and 1960s; and transformations in political documentary making from 1960s to the present.
By the end of this unit, students will have:
2 contact hours weekly, consisting of informal lectures and seminars and including presentations and discussions.
1 x 2000 word essay (50%) testing ILO’s 1-6.
1 x 2 hour exam (50%) testing ILO’s 1-6.
Deus e o diabo na terra do sol (1964), directed by Glauber Rocha
Cabra marcado para morrer (1985), directed by Eduardo Coutinho
Mário de Andrade, O turista aprendiz (Belo Horizonte: Itatiaia, 2002)
Ludger Derenthal and Samuel Titan Jr (eds.) Modernidades fotográficas 1940-1964: José Medeiros, Thomaz Farkas, Marcel Gautherot, and Hans Gunter Flieg (Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Moreira Salles, 2014)
Ismail Xavier, Allegories of Underdevelopment: Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Brazilian Cinema (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1997)
Beatriz Jaguaribe and Maurício Lissovsky, “The Visible and the Invisibles: Photography and Social Imaginaries in Brazil,” Public Culture 21:1 (2009), 175-209
[Texts may change from year to year]