Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Synopsis This subject aims to familiarise students with the origins of the war in earlier Spanish history, the ideologies of the European background against which it unfolded and its broad impact on the intellectual life and artistic production of the 1930s and beyond. The subject will involve the reading of historical and literary selections as well as the study of visual material - posters, painting and film. Students taking this subject as part of a major sequence in French and/or Spanish will be required to read the texts in the original language. The film for special study will be Saura's Mama Turns a Hundred. Other films on, or related to, the Spanish Civil War will be shown at lunchtime during the semester.
Assessment Written (4000 words): 65% + Examinations (2 hours): 35% + Option of further 2000-word essay in place of a 2-hour exam (Students who do not meet the attendance requirement will be required to do the examination)