PORT 406

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Brazilian Film

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Study of the evolution of Brazilian cinema through selected films to explore the nature and development of contemporary Brazilian aesthetics. May be offered in English (non prerequisites) or Portuguese (see prerequisite statement). See section description for details on the language of instruction each semester.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: If taught in Portuguese: PORT 402 (former 200) or 403 (former 320) or equivalent.

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PORT 406 class schedule data for spring 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	64843	Lecture-Discussion	G4	4:00PM -5:50PM	MW	G20 Foreign Languages Building	Karam, J Marquez, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: This course explores the world of Brazilian cinema from the mid-twentieth century to today. Throughout the semester, we will engage film as a window onto the complex problems of race, gender, and historical memory, as well as the inequalities they produced in Brazilian culture and society. While the first half of the course focuses on cinematic representations of African slavery and Brazil’s colonial past, the second half focuses on the impact of film on contemporary social and political issues in Brazil’s national period. We will learn about different cinematic styles like the chanchada, cinema novo, cinema marginal, the pornochanchada, and the films of the retomada (the so-called restart of Brazilian film in the 1990s) in order to understand the aesthetic and stylistic elements of Brazilian cinema. The course will be TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign or Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
	44411	Lecture-Discussion	U3	4:00PM -5:50PM	MW	G20 Foreign Languages Building	Karam, J Marquez, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: This course explores the world of Brazilian cinema from the mid-twentieth century to today. Throughout the semester, we will engage film as a window onto the complex problems of race, gender, and historical memory, as well as the inequalities they produced in Brazilian culture and society. While the first half of the course focuses on cinematic representations of African slavery and Brazil’s colonial past, the second half focuses on the impact of film on contemporary social and political issues in Brazil’s national period. We will learn about different cinematic styles like the chanchada, cinema novo, cinema marginal, the pornochanchada, and the films of the retomada (the so-called restart of Brazilian film in the 1990s) in order to understand the aesthetic and stylistic elements of Brazilian cinema. The course will be TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.