A Companion to Latin American Cinema

A Companion to Latin American Cinema offers a wide–ranging collection of newly commissioned essays and interviews that explore the ways in which Latin American cinema has established itself on the international film scene in the twenty–first century. Features contributions from international critics, historians, and scholars, along with interviews with acclaimed Latin American film directors Includes essays on the Latin American film industry, as well as the interactions between TV and documentary production with feature film culture Covers several up–and–coming regions of film activity such as nations in Central America Offers novel insights into Latin American cinema based on new methodologies, such as the quantitative approach, and essays contributed by practitioners as well as theorists INDICE: Notes on Contributors viii .Acknowledgments xiv .Introduction 1 Maria M. Delgado, Stephen M. Hart, and Randal Johnson .Part I The Film Industry: Funding, Production, Distribution, Exhibition 19 .1 Television and the Transformation of the Star System in Brazil 21 Randal Johnson .2 Stardom in Spanish America 36 Leah Kemp .3 Audiovisual Sector Incentives and Public Policy in Selected Latin American Countries 54 Steve Solot .4 Film, the Audiovisual, and New Technology in Latin America: Public Policy in the Context of Digital Convergence 71 Roque Gonzalez Translated by Franny Brogan and Randal Johnson .5 Film Funding Opportunities for Latin American Filmmakers: A Case for Further North South Collaboration in Training and Film Festival Initiatives 85 Tamara L. Falicov .6 The Film Festival Circuit: Identity Transactions in a Translational Economy 99 Mar Diestro Dopido .Part II Continental Currents: Documenting and Representing Identities 115 .7 Latin American Documentary: A Political Trajectory 117 Michael Chanan .8 The Politics of Landscape 133 Jens Andermann .9 From Postmodernity to Post Identity: Latin American Film after the Great Divide 150 Geoffrey Kantaris .10 Indigenous Filmmaking in Latin America 167 Charlotte Gleghorn .11 What Is the Child for Latin American Cinema? Spectatorship, Mobility, and Authenticity in Pedro Gonzalez Rubio s Alamar (2009) 187 Deborah Martin .12 Affect, Nostalgia, and Modernization: Popular Music in Twenty First Century Mexican and Chilean Cinema 201 Duncan Wheeler .Part III National Cinemas: Initiatives, Movements, and Challenges 217 .13 Memories of Cuban Cinema, 1959 2015 219 Joel del Rio and Enrique Colina Translated by Stephen M. Hart .14 Politics, Memory and Fiction(s) in Contemporary Argentine Cinema: The Kirchnerist Years 238 Maria M. Delgado and Cecilia Sosa .15 Neoliberalism and the Politics of Affect and Self Authorship in Contemporary Chilean Cinema 269 Joanna Page .16 Popular Cinema/Quality Television: A New Paradigm for the Mexican Mediascape 285 Paul Julian Smith .17 Alumbramento, Friendship, and Failure: New Filmmaking in Brazil in the Twenty First Century 294 Denilson Lopes Translated by Stephen M. Hart .18 The Reinvention of Colombian Cinema 307 Juana Suarez .19 Rendering the Invisible Visible: Reflections on the Costa Rican Film Industry in the Twenty First Century 325 Liz Harvey .Part IV New Configurations: Travel, Technology, Television 341 .20 The Horizontal Spread of a Vertical Malady: Cosmopolitanism and History in Pernambuco s Recent Cinematic Sensation 343 Lucia Nagib .21 Artists Cinema in Brazil 357 Andre Parente Translated by Randal Johnson .22 Brazilian Film and Television in Times of Intermedia Diversification 375 Esther Hamburger .23 A Mexican in Hollywood or Hollywood in Mexico? Globalized Culture and Alfonso Cuaron s Films 392 German Martinez Martinez .24 Latin American Cinema s Trojan Horse 408 Stephen M. Hart and Owen Williams .Part V The Interview Corner: Pragmatics and Praxis 431 .25 Finding the right balance : An Interview with Martin Rejtman 433 Maria M. Delgado .26 Escaping from an ordinary world into a more epic one : An Interview with Alvaro Brechner 446 Maria M. Delgado .27 The capacity to create mystery : An Interview with Pablo Larrain 459 Maria M. Delgado .28 A story might be similar from different places, but the language of representation is not : An Interview with Jeannette Paillan 473 Charlotte Gleghorn .29 Meeting points : An Interview with Mariana Rondon and Marite Ugas 487 Maria M. Delgado .30 Film is about connecting : An Interview with Diego Luna 499 Maria M. Delgado .31 The bridge between the others and us : An Interview with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 509 Damon Wise .Index 519

• ISBN: 978-1-118-55288-9
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 560
• Fecha Publicación: 11/04/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés