Education
SPANISH AS and A2 Study Session: The Devil’s Backbone
Study Session
Cornerhouse
Thu 29 Sep 2011
10:30-15:00
£6 per student
Booking required
How To Book
Contact the Projector Booking Team at Box Office on 0161 200 1500 between 12:00 – 18:00, Mon – Fri.
This session is open only to young people between 14 – 19 years old accompanied by their teachers.
Part of Projector, Projector MFL
Recommended for: AS / A2 and equivalent level Spanish
Capacity: 158 placesView Event
Carmen Herrero will introduce the themes and historical background to El espinazo del diablo. Students will have the opportunity to discuss the events depicted in the film in Spanish, as well as completing AS/A2 Level language exercises. Discussion will focus on themes of the family, friendship, war, the horror film and ‘cine fantástico’, narrative and representation, and characters. Background information on Spanish and Mexican cinemas will be provided.
Led by Carmen Herrero, Head of Spanish, Manchester Metropolitan University
Screening: The Devil’s Backbone (El Espinazo del diablo) 15
Dir Guillermo del Toro / Spain 2001 / 106 mins / In Spanish with English subtitles
Del Toro’s atmospheric ghost tale, set during the Spanish Civil War, plants a gothic thriller in an historical setting in which young boy Carlos is left abandoned in an isolated orphanage after the death of his father.
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