CLAS Virtual Coffee Hour: Portrayals of Andean and Amazonian Indigeneity in Children's Films

Grab some popcorn and settle in! Join us for the next CLAS Virtual Coffee Hour on Thursday, May 21, 1:30-2:30 p.m. on Portrayals of Andean and Amazonian Indigeneity in Children's Films - Entretenimiento, Educación y Crítica Social.

Honors Spanish majors Cara Satullo, Emily Montenegro, and Juhee Park (SPAN 4565H Indigenous Literatures and Cultures) will present their analyses of Andean and Amazonian indigenous cultural representations in the movies Pachamama, The Road to El Dorado, The Emperor's New Groove and Dora and the Lost City of Gold with special participation of Américo Mendoza Mori (UPenn), who was a Quechua Language Consultant for Dora and the Lost City of Gold.

You can watch The Road to El Dorado and Dora and the Lost City of Gold through Amazon Prime Video. Pachamama and The Emperor's New Groove are available on Netflix.

Please see the following classroom resources that may be of interest to K12 educators:

Online Resources

• [radio/podcast] “The Legacy of Dora the Explorer” by NPR’s LatinoUSA, August 14th, 2019
• [interview] “Paramount Pictures hired this Quechua professor to lend authenticity to ‘Dora and the Lost city of Gold’” by Remezcla, August 13th, 2019  with Américo Mendoza-Mori
• [article] "Pachamama" by Variety, June 6th, 2019

Student Analyses and Presentations*

• "Representación indígena en las películas infantiles" by Cara Satullo, undergraduate student at Ohio State [PPT]
• "Análisis sobre la película infantil Pachamama" by Juhee Park, undergraduate student at Ohio State [PDF]
• "Dora la conquistadora: Los elementos andinos y coloniales en Dora and the Lost City of Gold" by Emily Montenegro, undergraduate student at Ohio State [PDF]

These materials were developed as part of the Spring 2020 Spanish course, "Indigenous Languages, Literatures and Cultures of Latin America" (SPAN 4565H), taught by Dr. Michelle Wibbelsman