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This course will cover a timeline of the representation of the Amazon rainforest in different media, ranging from the 1930s until today, from filmmakers and literary authors from various countries, including both Amazonian and non-Amazonian perspectives. In this historiography of mainly filmic and some literary productions, we will touch on notions such as, but not limited to, national identity and its diffuse borders, agency, and the ethics of representing the ‘other’. The main objective for this course is for students to learn to identify different audiovisual and literary tropes and stereotypes that stem from a colonial mindset, which may have been carved into the mind by repetition and cultural reproduction. At the end of the course, students will have a better understanding of the (mis)representations of this cultural region and will be able to question the effects and ethics of filming it.