THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HARD WORK AND COMMITMENT TO THE CLASS THIS SEMESTER!
APRIL 30
Films:
Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin 1980) DVD 4520
La Libertad (Lisandro Alonso 2001) DVD 4571
Reading (to be done by May 6):
Robert Koehler. “Agrarian Utopias/Dystopias: The New Nonfiction.”
Paper topic (Paper due May 7 via email
to elkrugamigos@earthlink.net, attached as a .doc, .docx, .rtf or .odt file):
The final long paper is due before
the last class session on May 7.
"The irony,"
Robert Koehler concludes,
"is that there's nothing absolutely Argentine about La libertad.
Its freedom is a freedom from nationality, time-space, narrative laws, camera
laws and the expectations that audiences instinctively impose on themselves.
But pay attention to the actual translation of the Spanish title: 'Liberty'--a
harder, more profound word than 'freedom,' a word pointing to a greater leap, a
commitment to an ideal, an identifier for an equation that even describes its
opposition--oppression. Liberty is harder-won. Liberty is that thing that the
films that really matter aspire to. This one just has the balls to take it as
its own name."
