SPANISH CINEMA (SPAN 397PP) TOPICS FOR FINAL PAPER Fall 2015 Final Paper: Please, pick a topic from the list below for your final research paper. The paper has to have a minimum of six pages, Times New Roman 12. Since it is a research paper, you need also to consult and use the bibliographical sources that have been posted in BELOW.  Final paper is due Saturday, December 31, at midnight. Cinema as a Reflection of Society A heroine’s itinerary from dependency upon the male to a position unfettered by patriarchy The New Moral and Social Order in Jamón Jamón, Women on the Verge and All About My Mother The Filmic Representation of Multicultural and Multiracial Spain Constructing Alterity in Spanish Cinema Sexual Politics: The Evolving Role of Women in Spanish Cinema Representation of a New Age: Sexual and Racial Democracy Representation of a Closed and Old Age: Social and Sexual Tradition Construction of Different Identities Color and Visual Flair in Almodóvar’s Films Hollywood in Almodóvar’s Movies Queering of Spanish Society in Almodóvar and Other Film Directors Stylization and Artificiality in Contemporary Spanish Cinema Cinematic and Narrative Technique in Almodóvar’s Movies The Role of the Mother in Spanish Cinema Parody in the Movies of Almodóvar and Other Directors Melodrama in Almodóvar and Other Directors Representation of the New Spanish Society Blurring of Boundaries and Differences in Spanish Cinema Feminine Desire in Contemporary Spanish Cinema Use of Other Media in Almodóvar’s Cinema The Postmodernist Onslaught in Almodóvar’s Cinema Gender Identity as Target of Parody in Spanish Cinema Male Representation in Spanish Cinema or the Deconstruction of Masculinity Gender-Bending or Gender Instability in Contemporary Spanish Cinema De/Reconstruction of Codified Myths and Institutions of Spanish Culture Cultural and Personal Displacement in Contemporary Spanish Cinema Self-Reflexivity or Self-Consciousness in Contemporary Spanish Cinema The Representation of Desire The Female Gaze in Contemporary Spanish Cinema Camping and Transvestism in Almodóvar’s Cinema Exaggeration, Pastiche and Collapse of Boundaries in Spanish Cinema Sex and Violence in Spanish Cinema Representation of a New Post-Francoist Cultural Esthetic Madrid as the Space for the Reformulation of Spanish Cultural Values The City as the Embodiment of Female Self-Affirmation and Liberation The Imagining of a New Social and Moral Order in Spanish Cinema Subversion of Patriarchy in Spanish Cinema “Anything Goes’ as the Motto for Contemporary Spanish Cinema The Carnivalesque: Strategies of Subversion in Spanish Cinema The Subversion of Traditional Film Narrative in Almodóvar The Objectivization of the Male Body Gender Violence The Racial Others and Immigration Woman as Object in Spanish Cinema Female Emancipation The Civil War Discourse Monstrosity in Spanish Cinema Complicity with Patriarchal Discourse and Assertion Against it Traditional Spanish Machismo Self-consciously.

1. SPANISH CINEMA (SPAN 397PP)
TOPICS FOR FINAL PAPER
Fall 2015
Final Paper:
Please, pick a topic from the list below for your final research
paper. The paper has to have a minimum of six pages, Times
New Roman 12. Since it is a research paper, you need also to
consult and use the bibliographical sources that have been
posted in BELOW.
Final paper is due Saturday, December 31, at midnight.
Cinema as a Reflection of Society
A heroine’s itinerary from dependency upon the male to a
position unfettered by patriarchy
The New Moral and Social Order in
Jamón Jamón, Women on the Verge
and
All About My Mother
The Filmic Representation of Multicultural and Multiracial
Spain
Constructing Alterity in Spanish Cinema
Sexual Politics: The Evolving Role of Women in Spanish
Cinema
Representation of a New Age: Sexual and Racial Democracy
Representation of a Closed and Old Age: Social and Sexual
Tradition
Construction of Different Identities
Color and Visual Flair in Almodóvar’s Films
Hollywood in Almodóvar’s Movies
Queering of Spanish Society in Almodóvar and Other Film
Directors
Stylization and Artificiality in Contemporary Spanish Cinema

2. Cinematic and Narrative Technique in Almodóvar’s Movies
The Role of the Mother in Spanish Cinema
Parody in the Movies of Almodóvar and Other Directors
Melodrama in Almodóvar and Other Directors
Representation of the New Spanish Society
Blurring of Boundaries and Differences in Spanish Cinema
Feminine Desire in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Use of Other Media in Almodóvar’s Cinema
The Postmodernist Onslaught in Almodóvar’s Cinema
Gender Identity as Target of Parody in Spanish Cinema
Male Representation in Spanish Cinema or the Deconstruction
of Masculinity
Gender-Bending or Gender Instability in Contemporary Spanish
Cinema
De/Reconstruction of Codified Myths and Institutions of
Spanish Culture
Cultural and Personal Displacement in Contemporary Spanish
Cinema
Self-Reflexivity or Self-Consciousness in Contemporary
Spanish Cinema
The Representation of Desire
The Female Gaze in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Camping and Transvestism in Almodóvar’s Cinema
Exaggeration, Pastiche and Collapse of Boundaries in Spanish
Cinema
Sex and Violence in Spanish Cinema
Representation of a New Post-Francoist Cultural Esthetic
Madrid as the Space for the Reformulation of Spanish Cultural
Values
The City as the Embodiment of Female Self-Affirmation and
Liberation
The Imagining of a New Social and Moral Order in Spanish
Cinema
Subversion of Patriarchy in Spanish Cinema
“Anything Goes’ as the Motto for Contemporary Spanish

3. Cinema
The Carnivalesque: Strategies of Subversion in Spanish Cinema
The Subversion of Traditional Film Narrative in Almodóvar
The Objectivization of the Male Body
Gender Violence
The Racial Others and Immigration
Woman as Object in Spanish Cinema
Female Emancipation
The Civil War Discourse
Monstrosity in Spanish Cinema
Complicity with Patriarchal Discourse and Assertion Against it
Traditional Spanish Machismo
Self-consciously Constructed Cinema
Social Issues (Immigration, Domestic Violence, Drugs and aids)
Cinema
Gender and Sexuality as Performance
Juxtaposition of Reality and Fantasy
Any Topic of Your Choice
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SPANISH CINEMA
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