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Class number:
3214
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Title: Garcia Marquez on Netflix |
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Department: Language and Culture Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 16 |
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Current enrollment: 5 |
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Available seats: 11 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 23, 2026 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM, LIB - 103 |
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Instructor(s): Melendez, Priscilla |
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Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: C- or better in Hispanic Studies 270 and one of the following: Hispanic Studies 261, 262, 263, or 264, or permission of instructor. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements |
Course Description:
This course aims towards a 21st century reading of the Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE (1967) and of other of his novels –El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, Cronica de una muerte anunciada, El amor en los tiempos del colera--, and short stories –“Los funerales de la Mama Grande," “La candida Erendira,” “La siesta del martes,” "El ahogado mas hermoso del mundo." We will ponder how to (re)interpret in our current century the literary production of this 1982 Nobel Prize winner by re-contextualizing topics explored by Garcia Marquez in his fictional writings such as the postcolonial, love, patriarchy, feminism, sexuality, identity, the magical, and authoritarianism in light of recent theoretical, sociopolitical, and ecological approaches. We will discuss film productions of some of these narrative texts, in particular the December 2024 NETFLIX series based on One Hundred Years of Solitude as a way to consider various mediums of artistic communication and the concept of adaptation. The course will explore the challenging transformation of Garcia Marquez’s complex narrative structures into the visual language of film. |