1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema
The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema is the most comprehensive survey of Latin American cinemas available in a single volume. While highlighting state-of-the-field research, essays also offer readers a cohesive overview of multiple facets of filmmaking in the region, from the production system and aesthetic tendencies, to the nature of circulation and reception. The volume recognizes the recent "new cinemas" in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico, and, at the same time, provides a much deeper understanding of the contemporary moment by commenting on the aesthetic trends and industrial structures in earlier periods. The collection features essays by established scholars as well as up-and-coming investigators in ways that depart from existing scholarship and suggest new directions for the field.
Introduction: Troubling Histories
Marvin D’Lugo, Ana M. López and Laura Podalsky
I. Historiographies
Chapter 1: National cinema
Juan Poblete
Chapter 2: Silent and early sound cinema in Latin America: local, national, and transnational perspectives
Rielle Navitski
Chapter 3: National cinemas (re)ignited: film and the state
Lisa Shaw, Luis Duno-Gottberg, Joanna Page, and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Chapter 4: Unpacking periodization
Laura Podalsky
Chapter 5: Off-screen culture
Maite Conde, Laura Isabel Serna, and María Fernanda Arias Osorio
Chapter 6: Space, politics and the crisis of hegemony in Latin American film
Geoffrey Kantaris
Chapter 7: Encounters with the centaur: forms of the film-essay in Latin America
María Luisa Ortega
Chapter 8: Realism, documentary, and the process genre in early New Latin American Cinema
Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky
II. Interrogating critical paradigms
Chapter 9: Cosmopolitan nationalisms: transnational aesthetic negotiations in early Latin American sound cinema
Adrián Pérez Melgosa
Chapter 10: Genre films then and now
Gerard Dapena
Chapter 11: New Latin American stardom
Dolores Tierney, Victoria Ruétalo, and Roberto Carlos Ortiz
Chapter 12: Radical ruptures in the cinema of Latin America around "1968"
Mariano Mestman
Chapter 13: Transnational genealogies of institutional film culture of Cuba, 1960s–70s
Masha Salazkina
Chapter 14: New frameworks: collaborative and indigenous media activism
Freya Schiwy, Amalia Córdova David Wood, and Horacio Legrás
Chapter 15: Productions of space/places of construction: landscape and architecture in contemporary Latin American film
Jens Andermann
Chapter 16: Enduring art cinema
Nilo Couret
III. Business practices
Chapter 17: Transnational networks of financing and distribution: international co-productions
Luisela Alvaray
Chapter 18: The interlocking dynamics of domestic and international film festivals: the case of Latin American and Caribbean cinema
Tamara L. Falicov
IV. Intermedialities
Chapter 19: Film and photography: an archeology
Andrea Cuarterolo
Chapter 20: Problematizing film and photography
Alejandro Kelly-Hopfenblatt and Silvana Flores
Chapter 21: Film and radio intermedialities in early Latin American sound cinema
Ana M. López
Chapter 22: Music in Latin American cinema: aural communities on- and off-screen
Marvin D’Lugo
Chapter 23: Film and television
Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen
Chapter 24: Latin American film in the digital age
Gonzalo Aguilar, Mariana Lacunza, and Niamh Thornton
Biography
Marvin D’Lugo is Research Professor at Clark University, USA. He has written extensively on Hispanic transnational cinema, focusing on "audio politics" in Latin American film. He is currently completing a book on the digital cinema revolution in Mexico.
Ana M. López is Director of the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute at Tulane University, USA. Her research is focused on Latin American and Latino film and cultural studies. She is currently the editor of Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas.
Laura Podalsky has authored The Politics of Affect and Emotion in the Contemporary Latin American Cinema (2011) and Specular City: Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space in Buenos Aires, 1955–1973 (2004). She teaches Latin American film and cultural studies at the Ohio State University, USA.
