AIP 315 Spain in the 1980’s and the Films of Almodóvar (CP, IP)
In this course students will study the films of Spanish director, Pedro Almodóvar, with a particular emphasis on how the films he made in the 1980s engage his work in the three decades that follow. Students will examine Almodóvar’s films diachronically while analyzing the director’s treatment of relevant issues for the generation growing up during Spain’s transition from dictatorship to democracy: the movida madrileña; sexuality and identity; intertextual dialogues with international cinema; dialogues with Spanish traditions at the end of the twentieth century; memories of the Franco era; and creativity in the post-War and post-Franco eras.