Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 212
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-0-7425-3914-3 • Hardback • April 2007 • $128.00 • (£98.00)
978-0-7425-3915-0 • Paperback • April 2007 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
978-0-7425-7509-7 • eBook • April 2007 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
Deborah Shaw is senior lecturer in film studies at Portsmouth University.
Introduction: Latin Amercan Cinema Today: A Qualified Success Story
Chapter 1: Los diarios de motocicleta as Pan-American Travelogue
Chapter 2: "So What's Mexico Really Like?": Framing the Local, Negotiating the Global in Alfonso Cuarón's Y tu mamá también
Chapter 3: Cidade de Deus: Challenges to Hollywood, Steps to The Constant Gardener
Chapter 4: Playing Hollywood at Its Own Game? Bielinski's Nueve reinas
Chapter 5: Afro-Brazilian Identity, Malandragem and Homosexuality in Madame Satã
Chapter 6: Family Romance and Pathetic Rhetoric in Marcelo Piñeyro's Kamchatka
Chapter 7: Soapsuds and Histrionics: Media, History, and Nation in Bolívar soy yo
Chapter 8: Killing Time in Cuba: Juan Carlos Tabío's Lista de espera
Chapter 9: The Power of Looking: Politics and the Gaze in Salvador Carrasco's La Otra Conquista
Chapter 10: Peruvian Cinema and the Struggle for International Recognition: Case Study on El Destino no tiene favoritos
Recommended.
— Choice Reviews
With an eye to the national and international contexts of production and reception of contemporary Latin American cinema, essays in this exciting collection focus on international blockbusters as well as introduce readers to lesser known films. A welcome and valuable addition to the growing scholarship on the cinemas of the region.
— Andrea Noble, Durham University
The great merit of this book is to acknowledge current Latin American cinema's international success as an aesthetic achievement, as well as a commercial one. Through in-depth case studies, it contributes a fascinating new chapter to world cinema history.
— Lúcia Nagib, University of Reading
Again and again, these essays strip away the masks to reveal Latin American cinema as it really is: specific and local, national and historical, not a homogeneous product lately discovered by the United States and Europe as a marketable commodity. A valuable compendium for anyone who wants to know what's up with cinema in Latin America today.
— B. Ruby Rich, University of California, Santa Cruz; author of Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement
Examines both international successes and failures
Explores new approaches to representation that run counter to more traditional forms
Focuses on both high-profile international movies and films known only within their national context
Considers the relationship of film to the marketplace
Ideal for courses on International Film Studies and Contemporary Latin America