SP4227 Lesbian Narratives in Latin American Women’s Filmmaking

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Availability restrictions

This module is an optional honours module for all Spanish UG programmes (Single as well as Joint and Triple). It will also be accessible to suitably qualified visiting students (i.e., a sufficient level of fluency in the language).

Module coordinator

Dr K C Valderrama-Burgos

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Module Staff

Dr Karol Valderrama-Burgos

This information is given as indicative. Staff involved in a module may change at short notice depending on availability and circumstances.

Module description

The new millennium has proved the fast-growing interest in and urgency of addressing LGBTIQ+ matters in cinema in Latin America, and the importance of the work made by women directors in the topic and in the region. Whilst there are productions and names that excel when examining diversity, there is still limited work centred on lesbian subjectivities through the cinemas of Latin America. This honours module explores matters of visibility, agency and representation in Latin American films, especially through women directors’ work on lesbian subjects. By doing so, we will study a set of contemporary feature-length productions of Latin America and the visual strategies implemented by women filmmakers to develop lesbian narratives. We will learn and critically apply relevant frameworks in the contexts of Latin America –such as feminist film theory, lesbian and queer/cuir studies– to recognise, interrogate and celebrate images of lesbian women in post-1990 Latin American women’s filmmaking

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS SP2002

Assessment pattern

Coursework - 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework - 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1.5 hours per week, for a total of 16.5 hours per semester distributed as follows: 1 hour lecture-seminar sessions: 8 1 hour seminar-workshop sessions: 3.5 1 hour tutorial/practical session: 3 Surgery hours: 2

Scheduled learning hours

16

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

138

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Demonstrate they recognise the relationship between cinema and the socio-political and cultural contexts of Latin America.
  • Understand and autonomously reflect on the role of women's filmmaking when (de)constructing images of lesbian and diverse women.
  • Critically address matters of visibility, agency and representation of lesbian subjects, desires and issues through Latin American films made by women.
  • Show they have developed and enhanced their skills in analysing visual and written texts, using appropriate linguistic style, register, and critical vocabulary, and properly employing the required referencing conventions.
  • Display strong oral and teamwork skills when discussing the module corpus and the multiple contexts relevant to those, using appropriate linguistic style, register, and critical vocabulary.