# SPANISH 122 - Spanish Film from Buñuel to Almodóvar Semester: Spring | Year offered: 2026 This course will examine a wide range of core Spanish films from directors such as Almodóvar, Amenábar, Berlanga, Bollaín, Buñuel, Coixet, Erice, and León de Aranoa, among others. It will include analyses of prominent genres (drama, comedy, terror, fantasy, meta-cinema, sci-fi, noir) and will pay particular attention to key historical and cultural moments (the Spanish Civil War, film under dictatorship and democracy, censorship, “La movida,” the economic crisis, the rise of immigration, etc.) from the 1940s to the present. Films with subtitles. Course conducted in Spanish. --- ## Instructor [### Raquel Vega-Durán ](/people/raquel-vega-duran) Faculty Chair of Ethnicity, Migration & Rights Senior Lecturer in Peninsular and Transatlantic Film and Literature Formerly Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Claremont McKenna College Research Interests: Migration and Border Studies; Transatlantic Cultural History and Literature; Peninsular Spanish Cultural Studies; Film and Media Studies; Mediterranean Crossings; Gender Studies; Digital Humanities; Narratives of Identity, Memory... ![Raquel](/sites/g/files/omnuum8296/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-04/headshot.jpeg?itok=EBf6gCof) See also:- [ 70-100 ](/class-categories/70-100) - [ Raquel Vega-Durán ](/instructor/raquel-vega-duran) - [ Spanish ](/language/spanish) - [ Spring 2026 ](/class/term/spring-2026)