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Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Breaking into the Global Market
Author(s): Deborah Shaw
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
- Publication Date: 28 Feb. 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 212 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742539148
- ISBN-13: 9780742539143
Book Description
Written by leading specialists, the chapters not only offer textual analysis, but also trace the films’ social context and production conditions, as well as critical national and transnational issues. Their well-rounded analyses provide a rich picture of the state of contemporary filmmaking in a range of Latin American countries. Nuanced and thought-provoking, the readings in this book will provide invaluable interpretations for students and scholars of Latin American film.
Contributions by: Sarah Barrow, Nuala Finnegan, David William Foster, Miraim Haddu, Geoffrey Kantaris, Deborah Shaw, Lisa Shaw, Rob Stone, Else R. P. Vieira, and Claire Williams.
Editorial Reviews
Review
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
Recommended.
