"SPAIN AND THE AMERICAS"
Mutual Cinematic Perceptions
Course given by Carl J. Mora at
the University of New Mexico
as part of the
Arts in the Americas Program,
June 8-July 18, 1998
Luana Alcañiz and José Baviera in
La barraca (1944)
In observance of the centennial of the Spanish-American War in 1898, a defining conflict for both the United States and Spain, this course examined some historical and cultural attitudes of the United States and Latin America toward Spain, and Spanish perceptions of the United States, as reflected in their respective cinemas.
The Films
United States
Blood and Sand (1941), dir. Ruben Mamoulian
Captain from Castile (1941), dir. Henry King
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), dir. Sam Wood
The Pride and the Passion (1957), dir. Stanley Kramer
El Cid (1961), dir. Anthony Mann
Behold a Pale Horse (1964), dir. Fred Zinnemann
Latin America
Cabeza de Vaca (Mexico, 1991), dir.
Nicolás Echevarría
La barraca (Mexico, 1944), dir. Roberto Gavaldón
En el balcón vacío (Mexico, 1961), dir.
Jomí García Ascot
Barroco (Mexico, Cuba, Spain, 1990), dir. Paul Leduc
The Last Supper (Cuba, 1976), dir.
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Lucía (Cuba, 1969), dir. Humberto Solás
Spain
Bienvenido Mr. Marshall (1952), dir.
Luis García Berlanga
Los últimos de Filipinas (1945), dir.
Antonio Román
La línea del cielo (Skyline)
(1983), dir. Fernando Colomo
Guest Speakers
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NICOLÁS ECHEVARRÍA presented his film, Cabeza de Vaca, on June 15. The photo shows him with Carl J. Mora, left, the course instructor.
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SERGIO ALEGRE, professor of cinema history at the University of Barcelona, lectured on "The United States in Spanish Cinema" on July 6.
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HUMBERTO SOLÁS presented and discussed his classic film, Lucía, on July 13. Rosa Lowinger, his interpreter, is a Los Angeles-based writer.
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