Saddleback College Emeritus Institute
Film as Literature - Eng 052x
Course Outline & Film Data - Fall 2012: “Women who built Latin America - in cinema and history”
Fall 2012 (8/20/12-12/19/12)
Instructor: Karen Merced Willner
Ticket #16210; 0 Units Monday; 1-3:50 pm; 3 hr/wk
Voice Mail: (949)582-4900x3155
Sea Country
E-mail: kwillner@saddleback.edu
NEW BLOG! www.kmwfall2012.wordpress.com
Course Description: Examination of film as a 20th and 21st century art form. Considers foreign and domestic
cinema with attention given to film in terms of archetype, myth, symbol, characterization, and plot. Open
repeatability.
Student Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to: (1) Examine film as a
20th 21st century art form; (2) Criticize foreign and domestic films; (3) Examine aesthetic categories of film;
(4) Define the literary development in modern times.
Student Resources: motion picture research resources include the following
Internet Resources: Saddleback College Library-Off-campus periodicals (need student # & pin # to
access); Internet Movie Database – www.imdb.com; Turner Classic Movies – www.tcm.com; Roger
Ebert pages - www.rogerebert.com and www.ebertfest.com
Video & DVD Resources – rental & purchase: Orange County Public Libraries, Newport Beach Public
Libraries, Netflix.com, Blockbuster Video & Blockbuster.com, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com.
Textbook/Required Reading: No required reading. Suggested reading: The memoirs of the conquistador
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, available for download at Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org). Broken spears:
the Aztec account of the conquest of Mexico, by Miguel Leon-Portilla. Notable Latin American Women:
Twenty-nine leaders, rebels, poets, battlers and spies, 1500-1900 by Jerome R. Adams , can be previewed on
www.books.google.com. Links to these and other resources are available at our class blog,
www.kmwfall2012.wordpress.com.
Recommended Supplies: Paper and writing supplies.
Evaluation: Class attendance, participation, Instructor/student evaluation of progress.
Class Cancellation Notification Policy: It is not possible to call every student if a class must be cancelled at the
last minute due to emergency. Confirmation of class meetings will be made every Monday AM on the
instructor’s voice mail greeting – (949)582-4900, x3155. To be sure there is no last minute cancellation, call
voice mail before class. It is highly recommended that students also organize a telephone tree. This way, your
instructor or the Emeritus Office can notify key contacts who can then call other class members directly.
Important note - If you have an email address, please do the following immediately:
Send a message to kwillner@saddleback.edu. Subject of the email should be FALL 2012 FILM AS
LIT STUDENT. I will then add your email address to any group message I send regarding our classes this
semester. Otherwise, any group messages will be sent to your student email address through Saddleback.
Returning students: If you have not received an email from me by the first day of class, you are not on
the blast list and must send me a message per above instructions!
Upon receipt of your email, I will send you a link to my blog, KMWfall2012.wordpess.com. This site will
have lots of interesting and fun information about this semester’s theme, and the content is accessible
without a password.
Each class session (excluding sessions 1 & 2 with enrollment activities):*
1:00 to +–1:15: Attendance, school announcements, introduction of film
+-1:15 to 3:45: Film and/or speaker’s presentation, instructor’s comments, student discussion
3:45: Class officially ends
*Will be a 15 minute break at closing credits of each film; schedule may vary at instructor’s discretion
(Note about the Tuesday classes 9-12noon at Laguna Woods Clubhouse 5 OR 2-5pm at Norman Murray
Center: the schedule of films will be about important women in North American history and culture)
Film as Literature
FALL 2012
REVISED AS OF OCTOBER 22, 2012 -Schedule of Screenings
PLEASE NOTE!
*CLASSES WILL MEET NOVEMBER 5
*CLASSES WILL NOT MEET NOVEMBER 12 DUE TO VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY
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Date
Film Name (Year) Director; Country,
Language**
Rating***
Min
Notes; Topics for discussion
The role of women and goddesses in the conquest of Mexico
1
Captain from Castile (1947) Henry King;
10/22 USA; English; cc
Part 1
2
Captain from Castile
approved
Part 2
10/29
Queen Isabella of Spain: Launching
the “new world” through Conquest
and Inquest
140 Mexican archetypes:
 Doña Marina/La Malinche/
Malinulli: “the mother of the
Mestizo race”
3
La otra conquista (2001) Salvador
Mexican archetypes (cont):
R – Graphic
Carrasco; Mexico; Spanish
11/5
105  Goddess of the Moon/Virgin of
violence
Guadalupe
4
11/12
No class – Veterans’ Day holiday
Leaders, revolutionaries, and icons
5
Evita (1996)Alan Parker; USA; English;
11/19
PG
135 Eva Peron of Argentina
cc
6
In the time of the butterflies
The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican
11/26
PG-13
95
(2001)Mariano Barroso; USA; English; cc
Republic
7
Antonieta (1982) Carlos Saura; Mexico;
12/3
PG-13
108 Antonieta Rivas Mercado of Mexico
Spanish
8
Frida (2002) Julie Taymor; USA; English
Scene by scene evaluation of the
R – strong
12/10
& Spanish; cc - PART 1
123 artistic, cultural, symbolic and
sexual
historic elements of Frida
9
12/17 Frida - PART 2
content
* All films subject to availability. Last minute substitutions may be made.
** Foreign language films will have English subtitles except where otherwise noted.
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