This guide is designed to help you find resources for your Writing 120 Course - Based on a True Story: Memory and Resistance in Latin American Film.
There's much more where this came from! If you don't find what you need here, please contact your librarians for the course, Danette Pachtner, Librarian for Film, Video, & Digital Media and Women's Studies, or Roger Peña, Librarian for Latin America, Iberian and Latinx Studies.
Writing has long shaped Latin America’s history and culture, but since the late 19th century, cinema has emerged as a powerful medium for exploring and redefining national identity. By the 1960s, the Third World Cinema movement positioned film as a vehicle for collective expression, using stories of history and culture to inspire reflection, memory, and change. In this class, we will examine films that revisit key historical moments to understand how filmmakers retell the past to shape the present and bring about change.
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