Supported by a GRAF award from the BU Graduate School, Edgardo Tormos, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, spent the past month in Mexico conducting research toward his dissertation. Edgardo’s dissertation examines the outburst of independent film in the aftermath of the 1968 massacre of student protesters in Tlatelolco.

Edgardo tells us:

My research abroad in México was dedicated specifically to a chapter of my dissertation. The bulk of the cinematic and newspaper, periodical, and theoretical material I examined is housed in the Filmoteca, the official filmic library and archive of the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM). More specifically, the research examines a corpus of literature and film produced after 1968 in México. In this period, a new, experimental body of film portrayed a spectrum of perspectives and narratives that served as a countercultural bulwark against a long-standing, state-produced cultural apparatus that had entered into crisis after prolonged political stability.

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