Month: April 2021

This week we sought to understand ways in which escaping fascism and reinventing religiosity lead to new ways to imagine sex, love, and kinship, and how Spain’s cinema of the last decade of the 20th century represented such new ways.  During the last decade of the 20th century spectators inside and beyond the borders of… Continue reading 19-21 April. Escaping Fascism, Reinventing Religiosity, Rewriting Love and Kinship

This short week we worked with the concept of transnational melodrama, and the ways in which artists deploy matters of fascism and religiosity (belief, ritual, suffering economics, etc) both onstage and backstage to compose filmic stories. Melodrama is the frame through which artists have deployed high style and feeling to tell a story, especially in… Continue reading 12 April. Sex, Lies, and Transnational Melodrama

Wednesday of this week we sought to understand and read competently Gothic and Bromance as filmic narratives, and to tease out their relation with transnational fascist tales.  To connect them to better see what role these and other signs play in the interplay of fascism and religiosity in Spain. How does a critique of the… Continue reading 5-7 April. Gothic, Bromance, and Other Transnational Fascist Love Stories

The 80s marked an era of rupture with the forty years of fascism and the nostalgic embracement of imperial politics, and a subversion of the highly documented National.  This week we considered how religious institutions (more particularly, convents and nunneries) and melodrama contributed to the representation of fascism and religiosity in Spanish cinema, and we… Continue reading 29-31 March. Global (Out)Bursts. Religious Institutions, Melodrama, and the Release of Democracy