College Bulletin 2025-2026 
    
    Feb 09, 2026  
College Bulletin 2025-2026

FMST 053. Latin American Cinema


This course engages a history of Latin American cinema from the late 19th through the 21st century. It provides an overview of the history of film in the region with a focus on how filmmakers sought a more material connection between politics, cinema, and society. This course is divided loosely around the major cinematic periods of this history: avant-garde cinema, studio cinema, art cinema, neorealism, New Latin American Cinema, and contemporary cinema.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Fall 2027 Almeida.
Catalog chapter: Film and Media Studies  
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies


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