Evaluate the films’ perspectives: Are the stories told from the colonizers’ point of view, the indigenous peoples’, or a balanced viewpoint? How does this perspective influence the portrayal of cultural encounters?
Assignment Overview: This film analysis assignment invites you to delve into the complex and often tumultuous encounters between indigenous peoples and European colonizers in the Americas. The Other Conquest (Spanish: La Otra Conquista), directed by Salvador Carrasco, presents the aftermath of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, focusing on the spiritual and cultural struggles … Read more