Introduction.

This is my first (test) post for Juan De Castro's class: Screening Latin American Novel and Short Story.

Course Description:
This course studies how Latin American literary works have been transformed into film not only in the region, but also in Europe and the United States. In addition to studying the manner in which the different cultural contexts have impacted these film adaptations, we analyze the differences between cinematic and literary narrative, theories of film adaptation, and the integration of cinematic techniques into literary texts. Some of the theorists read in the course are Serdei Eisenstein, Andre Bazin, and James Naremore. Among the novels and short stories analyzed may be texts by Jorges Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Edmundo Desnoes, and Mario Vargas Llosa. The films studied include Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider Stratagem's, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup, and Francisco Lombardi's Captain Pantoja and the Special Service.