CULTURE AND THE ARTS

LATI 50Introduction to Latin America

ISSUES AND THEMES• Freedom vs. censorship

– self-censorship

– Exile

– political content?

• Financial support– dangers of cooptation

– state vs. private sources

– alternative lines of work

• Scope of audience– dependent on media

– national and/or international?

• Themes: identity or universality?

MEXICO: ART FOR THE MASSES

• The Muralists:– Diego Rivera (1886-1957)

– David Siqueiros (1896-1974)

– José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949)

– and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

The Writers:

– Mariano Azuela (1873-1952), Los de Abajo

– Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928), Death of Artemio Cruz

IT’S ENTERTAINMENT! TELEVISION

• 80-95 % now have access to TV

• Telenovelas popular throughout Latin America and world (e.g., “La esclava”)

• Major TV networks:– Globo (Brazil)

– Televisa (Mexico)

THE USES OF FILM

• La historia oficial (Argentina, 1985)

• Y tu mamá también (Mexico, 2001)

• Cidade de Deus (Brazil, 2002)

• María llena eres de gracia (Colombia-USA, 2004)