SPAN 4520

Experimental Screens: Mirrors, Memory, Media

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Experimental media surfacing from different corners of the Iberian Peninsula, since the emergence of the avant-garde to the Internet age, has a long-standing history of exploring new modes of sensory perception-the relationship between technology and emotion, vision and time, abstract forms and concrete effects. In this course, we will study a range of audiovisual materials from photomontage and short animation, to surrealist cinema and video art. As we move through different registers, the goal will be to study the language of media, its aesthetic relation to literary forms, and its connection to poetry and philosophy.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025FA, 2020SP

Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS, CA-AS, ETM-AS)

When Offered Spring.

Comments Conducted in Spanish. Prior knowledge of film and media studies is helpful but not required.

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