Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature and Film: The Films of Luis Buñuel

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
Week 1
1	Introduction to class: Lecture on Surrealism and the friendship of Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí and Frederico García Lorca in the 1920’s. Discussion of Film Un chien andalou. (Un perro andaluz). Directed by Luis Buñuel. Black and White, 16 min. 1929.
Week 2
2	Discussion of Film, (cont.)  Un chien andalou
3	Discussion of Film Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie. (El discrete de la burguesía). Directed by Luis Buñuel. Color, 102 min. 1972.
Week 3
4	Discussion of Film, (cont.)  Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Week 4
5	Discussion of Film Las Hurdes. Directed by Luis Buñuel. Black and White, 30 min. 1993.	Reading notes for chapters 1–14 for Mi último suspiro due
6	Discussion of Film, (cont.)  Las Hurdes	Due date to pick a film to write about for 10 page paper assignment
Week 5
7	Discussion of Film Los olvidados. Directed by Luis Buñuel. Black and White, 80 min. Ultramar Films, 1950.	Reading notes for Chapters 15–17 and part of 18 of Mi último suspiro due to professor by the end of the week
8	Discussion of Film, (cont.)  Los olvidados	Student group report on Los olvidados.
Week 6
9	Discussion of Film El ángel exterminador. Directed by Luis Buñuel. Black and White, 95 min. Producciones Gustavo Alatriste, 1962.	Student group report on El ángel exterminador.
Week 7
10	Discussion of Film, (cont.) El ángel exterminador
11	Discussion of Film El. Directed by Luis Buñuel. Black and White, 82 min. Producciones Tepeyac, 1953.	Reading notes for pp. 280–82 and 239–71 from Mi último suspiro are due at the end of the week.
Week 8
12	Discussion of Film, (cont.)  El	Student group report on El.
13	Discussion of Film Ensayo de un crimen. Directed by Luis Buñuel. Black and White, 89 min. Alianza Cinematográfica Española, 1955.
Week 9
14	Discussion of Film, (cont.) Ensayo de un crimen	Student group report on Ensayo de un crimen.
15	Discussion of Film Nazarin. Directed by Luis Buñuel. Black and White, 94 min. Producciones Barbachano Ponce, 1959.
Week 10
16	Discussion oF Film, (cont.) Nazarin  Simon del desierto. Directed by Luis Buñuel. Black and White, 43 min. Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Producción Cinematográfica (STPC), 1965.	Student group report on Nazarín.
17	Watch Viridiana. Directed by Luis Buñuel. Black and White, 90 min. Unión Industrial Cinematográfica (UNINCI), Gustavo Alatriste, Films 59, 1961.
Week 11
18	Discussion of Film, (cont.) Viridiana.	Student group report on Viridiana.
19	Watch “Journal d’une Femme de Chambre. (Diario de una camarera/ Diary of a Chambermaid.) Directed by Benoît Jacquot. Color, 96 min. Les Films du Lendemain, JPG Productions, Les Films du Fleuve, 2015.
Week 12
20	Discussion of Film, (cont.)  Journal d’une Femme de Chambre.
21	Watch Tristana. Directed by Luis Buñuel. Color, 95 min. Época Films, Talía Films, Selenia Cinematografica, 1970.
Week 13
22	Discussion of Film, (cont.) Tristana.
23	Buñuel’s last film Cet obscure objet du désir(Ese oscuro objeto del deseo.) Directed by Luis Buñuel. Color, 102 min. Greenwich Film Productions, Les Films Galaxie, In-Cine Compañía Industrial Cinematográfica, 1977.
Week 14
24	Discussion of Film, (cont.)  Ese oscuro objeto del deseo.
25	Individual oral reports on topics of 10-page papers
Week 15
26 & 27	Individual oral reports on topics of 10-page papers, (cont.)	10-page paper due at the end of the semester.