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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Spanish Program and the Office of Hispanic Outreach at Texas A&M University-Commerce present Gender Issues in Latin American Cinema at our Hispanic Film Showcase, second movie of the series. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This fall 2012, the theme for our Film Showcase is Gender Issues in Latin American Cinema. This showcase is dealing with representations of “masculinity” and “femininity” as social constructions in Latin America, and how individuals cope with what culture demands of their gender choices.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Our second movie of the series is<i> Danzón</i> (1991) by Mexican director, María Novaro. <i>Danzón</i> is the story of one woman's journey of self- discovery. It concerns Julia (María Rojo), who works as a telephone operator in Mexico City and enjoys a form of ballroom dance called “danzón”. Julia and Carmelo (Daniel Rergis), have been dance partners for six years, when suddenl<a name="_GoBack"></a>y Carmelo inexplicably disappears. Julia sets out to find him and achieves, in the process, to find herself. [Spanish with English subtitles]. <i>Danzón </i>is rated PG-13.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Date: Friday October 19 at 6pm. All movies will be played at the Theater 203 in the Hall of Languages. </span><span lang=ES-PE style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Questions? please contact Dr. María Fernández-Lamarque <a href="mailto:maria.lamarque@tamuc.edu">maria.lamarque@tamuc.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>