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This course is a comprehensive study of presentations of food in Latin American Film. Cuisines are cultural symbols that bind together people in ritual and into a community. The goal of this class is to interpret how food habits function beyond providing calories and sustenance. Films from Latin America will be used as an entrée to discussing topics of food as medicine, family/community, and gender and as links to the history of Latin America. Students will be able to identify and differentiate between tropes of, as well as approaches to, food in film, and theories of food production, distribution and consumption in Latin America. Assignments will include a weekly film viewing, along with primary theoretical readings (in Spanish) around food and culture. Several presentations and a final project will focus on continuing research into food representations in films selected by individual students in which you will be able to apply what you have learned during this course to analyze additional works, thereby gaining a deeper understanding of Latin American cultures and values.