A Companion to Latin American Cinema

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ISBN: 1119329205
ISBN 13: 9781119329206
Herausgeber: Maria M Delgado/Stephen M Hart/Randal Johnson
Verlag: Wiley-VCH GmbH
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.05.2025
Auflage: 1/2025
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: KT

Latin American films are enjoying unprecedented success with audiences around the world, with filmmakers garnering top awards both in the United States and at international film festivals. A Companion to Latin American Cinema brings together filmmakers, critics, historians, and scholars to provide 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 The authors address the important national cinemas of such countries as Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, as well as the emerging cinematic traditions of Cuba, Bolivia, Guatemala, and others. Interviews with acclaimed auteurs and leading voices of Latin American cinema are also featured, including Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu and Chilean director Pablo Larraín. A variety of thematic, theoretical, and historical perspectives are explored, including new movements and developments in Latin American cinema and how technological advances have allowed smaller South and Central American nations to nurture a film industry without state funding. Scholarly and thought-provoking, A Companion to Latin American Cinema offers bold insights into a cinematic tradition that has emerged at the vanguard of twenty-first-century filmmaking.

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Beschreibung

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

Autorenporträt

Maria M. Delgado is Professor and Director of Research at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, and has served as a programme advisor to the London Film Festival since 1997. Recent publications include Spanish Cinema 1973-2010 (2013) and A History of Theatre in Spain (2012). She is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound and a range of BBC Radio programmes. Stephen M. Hart is Professor of Latin American Film, Literature and Culture at University College London. He is also general editor of Tamesis and founder-director of the Centre of César Vallejo Studies. His publications include Gabriel García Márquez (2016), Latin American Cinema (2015), and A Companion to Latin American Literature (2007). Randal Johnson is Distinguished Professor of Brazilian Literature and Cinema at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Manoel de Oliveira (2007), Antônio das Mortes (1998), The Film Industry in Brazil: Culture and the State (1987), and Cinema Novo x 5: Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Film (1984).

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