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FMST 1346 - DRUGS, MONEY AND VIOLENCE: NARCO-CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICAN FILMMinimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the complex, multi-layered, and often contradictory world of transnational narcotics traffic particularly as it is configured in and through contemporary Latin American cinema. Departing from the contention that the relations between drug trafficking networks, governmental responses to the drug trade, drug production and consumption, are not clear and transparent as depicted in dominant discourses exemplified by the narrative of the War on Drugs, this course analyzes narco-culture not as a simplistic response centered merely on the idolization of drug lords or drug culture, but as a dynamic creative current that tries to make sense of the complexity and violence of the world of drugs. Why do official narratives of capitalist enterprise disavow the capitalist foundation of the drug trade? How are discourses of security and protection ironically embodied in violent militarized actions and neo-imperial ventures? How does the criminalization of certain cultural practices and symbols - particular languages, dress codes, music - relate to the racialization and sexualization of certain peoples and bodies? Moreover, how can we understand the (global) commercial success of narco-culture as exemplified by recent mainstream media and popular culture? In this course, we will address these questions by engaging in close reading/viewing of contemporary Latin American films that center on representations and (re)productions of narco-culture. These primary works will be examined in conjunction with secondary readings that discuss topics relevant to our analysis of narco-culture, such as globalization, neoliberal capitalism, immigration, femicides, cultural appropriation, and racial and gender construction. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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