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Domestic Labor in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema

Author : Elizabeth Osborne,Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030332969

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Domestic Labor in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema by Elizabeth Osborne,Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro Pdf

This volume explores the character of the domestic worker in twenty-first century Latin American cinema and analyzes how recent filmic representations of the housemaid question the marginalization of domestic servants, in particular women, by making them the center of their narratives, their families, and society. The essays in this book posit the female domestic worker as an emergent subjectivity, a complex character who problematizes and contests the hierarchical power structures within the family dynamics and new socioeconomic orders found in contemporary Latin America. Readers will find a variety of representations across the continent as well as transnational commonalities of the cinematic figure and role of the housemaid, including the negotiation of a multilayered politics of affection in the framework of prevalent paternalism, and the complex and contradictory dynamic between private and public spaces, where domestic paid labor occupies a central role in maintaining gender, class, and ethnic inequalities.

Indigenous Plots in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema

Author : Maria Chiara D'Argenio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030939144

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Indigenous Plots in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema by Maria Chiara D'Argenio Pdf

In this engaging book, Maria Chiara D’Argenio delineates a turn in recent Latin American filmmaking towards inter/cultural feature films made by non-Indigenous directors. Aimed at a global audience, but played by Indigenous actors, these films tell Indigenous stories in Indigenous languages. Over the last two decades, a growing number of Latin American films have screened the Indigenous experience by combining the local and the global in a way that has proved appealing at international film festivals. Locating the films in composite webs of past and present traditions and forms, Indigenous Plots in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema examines the critical reflection offered by recent inter/cultural films and the socio-cultural impact, if any, they might have had. Through the analysis of a selection of films produced between 2006 and 2019, the book gauges the extent to which non-Indigenous directors who set out to engage critically with colonial legacies and imaginaries, as well as with contemporary Indigenous marginalization, succeed in addressing these concerns by ‘unthinking’ and ‘undoing’ Western centrism and coloniality. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines and considering the entire cinematic process – from pre-production to the films’ production, circulation and critical reception – Indigenous Plots in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema makes the case for a holistic cultural criticism to explain the cultural and political work cinema does in specific historical contexts.

Radical Equalities and Global Feminist Filmmaking - An Anthology

Author : Bernadette Wegenstein,Lauren Benjamin Mushro
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781648894367

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Radical Equalities and Global Feminist Filmmaking - An Anthology by Bernadette Wegenstein,Lauren Benjamin Mushro Pdf

"Radical Equalities and Global Feminist Filmmaking - An Anthology"’s main objective is to exhibit and unveil the fruit of the growing movement of feminist filmmakers around the world through interviews with current filmmakers themselves and through critical analysis of the works of these filmmakers. Every filmmaker we examine tells their own story about radical equality from a place that they have lived, are drawing from, or have imagined. The common theme in all of the films of our selected filmmakers is the obligation they feel towards the oppressed and the resulting ethics of interdependence their films exhibit. Some films give voice to those who are suffering in the shadows, or have been silenced and murdered because of their political orientation and work; some films showcase vulnerable identities (especially gender identities) because the characters are inter-sex, transgender, of a marginalised class and skin color, are being forced into a split identity because of a colonial history, or because they are living in a part of the world from which they cannot escape. Other films highlight the feminist experience of lesbian love and its constraints or revolutions, the experience of motherhood, and the question of origin in all of its complexities. The authors have, to date, conducted 16 interviews with filmmakers from around the world who, in very different ways - at times with comic relief , at times by pointing the cameras back at themselves, at times by inviting the viewer to grieve with them - question radical equality and vulnerability. We have selected these films on the basis of their unique stories and story-telling style, and their diverse points of view referencing different socio-political historical realities around the world. Each of them has one, if not several, female, intersex or non binary characters as their leads; each of them engage us with the question of feminism in a political way that highlights our obligation toward the character and her lived experience. Each of them focuses on “interdependence” as an aesthetic and cinematic principle. But what is most important is the fact that each filmmaker will be able to describe how they found their access and inspiration for their story, and how the film reflects on their own lived experience that is socio-economically and historically determined.

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms

Author : Guillermina De Ferrari,Mariano Siskind
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780429602672

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The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms by Guillermina De Ferrari,Mariano Siskind Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms brings together a team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume. Highlighting key trends within the discipline, as well as cutting-edge viewpoints that revise and redefine traditional debates and approaches, readers will come away with an understanding of the complexity of twenty-first-century Latin American cultural production and with a renovated and eminently contemporary understanding of twentieth-century literature and culture. This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and academics in the fields of Latin American literature, cultural studies, and comparative literature.

Contemporary Argentine Women Filmmakers

Author : Mirna Vohnsen,Daniel Mourenza
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031323461

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Contemporary Argentine Women Filmmakers by Mirna Vohnsen,Daniel Mourenza Pdf

This edited volume offers a wide-ranging picture of Argentine women filmmakers’ contribution to the film industry from the 1980s to the present by bringing together the work of highly acclaimed and emerging directors. Through thirteen critical essays by leading scholars in the field of Argentine cinema, the book acknowledges that contemporary women filmmakers have transformed the cinema of Argentina by questioning, challenging and debunking hegemonic patriarchal systems of representation. With a focus on women’s voices and experiences, the contributions redress both the under-representation of women and girls onscreen and the perpetuation of stereotypes, while exploring the innovative aesthetics used by these filmmakers.

Other Americans

Author : Matthew Bush
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822988960

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Other Americans by Matthew Bush Pdf

Grounded in perspectives of affect theory, Other Americans examines the writings of Roberto Bolaño and Daniel Alarcón; films by Alfonso Cuarón, Claudia Llosa, Matt Piedmont, and Joel and Ethan Coen; as well as the Netflix serials Narcos and El marginal. These widely consumed works about Latin America—equally balanced between narratives produced in the United States and in the region itself—are laden with fear, anxiety, and shame, which has an impact that exceeds the experience of reception. The negative feelings encoded in visions of Latin America become common coinage for US audiences, shaping their ideological relationship with the region and performing an affective interpellation. By analyzing the underlying melodramatic structures of these works that would portray Latin America as an implicit other, Bush examines a process of affective comprehension that foments an us/them, or north/south binary in the reception of Latin America’s globalized art.

Mexican Genders, Mexican Genres

Author : Paul Julian Smith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781855663466

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Mexican Genders, Mexican Genres by Paul Julian Smith Pdf

Gender and the contemporary audio-visual landscape of Mexico.

Paid to Care

Author : Rachel Randall
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781477327708

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Paid to Care by Rachel Randall Pdf

"The book analyzes post-1980 films, texts, and digital media produced in collaboration with paid domestic workers or inspired by their experiences to explore such workers' sociocultural status and struggles"--

Urban Indigeneities

Author : Dana Brablec,Andrew Canessa
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816548828

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Urban Indigeneities by Dana Brablec,Andrew Canessa Pdf

Increasing numbers of Indigenous peoples are living in cities, yet the vast majority of studies focus solely on rural Indigenous populations. This is the first book to look at urban Indigenous peoples globally and present the urban Indigenous experience--not as the exception but as the norm. Dismissing the false idea that indigeneity is only "authentic" when it is practiced in remote rural areas, these wide-ranging essays show that a vigorous, vibrant, and meaningful indigeneity can be created in urban spaces too and offers perspectives and tools to understand a contemporary Indigenous urban reality.

Remaking Home

Author : Paul Merchant
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822988496

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Remaking Home by Paul Merchant Pdf

Houses, in the Argentine and Chilean films of the early twenty-first century, provide much more than a backdrop to on-screen drama. Nor are they simply refuges from political turmoil or spaces of oppression. Remaking Home argues that domestic spaces are instead the medium through which new, fragile common identities are constructed. The varied documentary and fiction films analyzed here, which include an early work by Oscar winner Sebastián Lelio, use the domestic sphere as a laboratory in which to experiment with narrative, audiovisual techniques, and social configurations. Where previous scholarship has focused on the social fragmentation and political disillusionment visible in contemporary film, Remaking Home argues that in order to understand the political agency of contemporary cinema, it is necessary to move beyond deconstructive critical approaches to Latin American culture. In doing so, it expands the theoretical scope of studies in Latin American cinema by finding new points of contact between the cultural critique of Nelly Richard, the work of Bruno Latour, and theories of new materialism.

The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Mauricio Espinoza,Jared List
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781683403951

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The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century by Mauricio Espinoza,Jared List Pdf

How an overlooked film industry became a cinematic force The first book in English dedicated to the study of Central American film, this volume explores the main trends, genres, and themes that define this emerging industry. The seven nations of the region have seen an unprecedented growth in film production during the twenty-first century with the creation of over 200 feature-length films compared with just one in the 1990s. This volume provides a needed overview of one of the least explored cinemas in the world. In these essays, various scholars of film and cultural studies from around the world provide insights into the continuities and discontinuities between twentieth- and twenty-first-century cinematic production on the Isthmus. They discuss how political, social, and environmental factors, along with new production modes and aesthetics, have led to a corpus of films that delve into issues of the past and present such as postwar memory, failed revolutions, trauma, migration, popular culture, minority populations, and gender disparities. From Salvadoran documentaries to Costa Rican comedies and Panamanian sports films, the movies analyzed here demonstrate the region’s flourishing film industry and the diversity of approaches found within it. The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century pays homage to an overlooked cultural phenomenon and shows the importance of regional cinema studies. Contributors: Liz Harvey-Kattou | Daniela Granja Núñez | Carolina Sanabria | Juan Carlos Rodríguez | María Lourdes Cortés | Júlia González de Canales Carcereny | Arno Jacob Argueta | Tomás Arce Mairena | Dr. Mauricio Espinoza | Lilia García Torres | Dr. Jared List | Patricia Arroyo Calderón | Esteban E. Loustaunau | Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste | Juan Pablo Gómez Lacayo | Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Aren't You Bojack Horseman?

Author : Harriet E.H. Earle
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476690636

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Aren't You Bojack Horseman? by Harriet E.H. Earle Pdf

When the final episode of BoJack Horseman aired on Netflix in 2020, it was to massive critical and popular acclaim. Across six seasons, viewers followed the exploits of a washed-up sitcom actor and his wacky collection of friends, set against the fading glitz of Hollywood and played out through a distinct cast of both human and anthropomorphic characters. Before the series even concluded, it was clear that it would be the topic of research and discussion long beyond its relatively short run. This collection brings together essays about the ways this series handles complex and highly nuanced topics within three main themes: mental health, masculinity, and the perils of celebrity. With contributions from researchers across a broad range of fields, these essays offer a variety of perspectives on these themes, how they are represented within the show, and the ways that both characters and viewers engage with them.

Border Witness

Author : Michael Dear
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520391949

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Border Witness by Michael Dear Pdf

"Border Witness offers a surprising catalogue of films dealing with the US-Mexico border and released during the past 100 years. It compares these screen visions with what was happening on the ground at the time in both countries. From revolution through to the present global crisis, the films are left to speak for themselves, but their stories are measured alongside the author's experience following decades of research, writing, and activism along the line. Taken together, this book outlines a unique Border Film genre just now entering its Golden Age. This book also comes with a message to both nations that they should learn more from borderlanders about how to conduct cross-border lives"--

A Dictionary of Film Studies

Author : Annette Kuhn,Guy Westwell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780192568045

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A Dictionary of Film Studies by Annette Kuhn,Guy Westwell Pdf

A Dictionary of Film Studies covers all aspects of its discipline as it is currently taught at undergraduate level. Offering exhaustive and authoritative coverage, this A-Z is written by experts in the field, and covers terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism; national, international, and transnational cinemas; film history, movements, and genres; film industry organizations and practices; and key technical terms and concepts. Since its first publication in 2012, the dictionary has been updated to incorporate over 40 new entries, including computer games and film, disability, ecocinema, identity, portmanteau film, Practice as Research, and film in Vietnam. Moreover, numerous revisions have been made to existing entries to account for developments in the discipline, and changes to film institutions more generally. Indices of films and filmmakers mentioned in the text are included for easy access to relevant entries. The dictionary also has 13 feature articles on popular topics and terms, revised and informative bibliographies for most entries, and more than 100 web links to supplement the text.

Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World

Author : Carl Fischer,Vania Barraza
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814346839

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Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World by Carl Fischer,Vania Barraza Pdf

Focusing on films from Chile since 2000 and bringing together scholars from South and North America, Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World is the first English-language book since the 1970s to explore this small, yet significant, Latin American cinema. The volume questions the concept of "national cinemas" by examining how Chilean film dialogues with trends in genre-based, political, and art-house cinema around the world, while remaining true to local identities. Contributors place current Chilean cinema in a historical context and expand the debate concerning the artistic representation of recent political and economic transformations in contemporary Chile. Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World opens up points of comparison between Chile and the ways in which other national cinemas are negotiating their place on the world stage. The book is divided into five parts. "Mapping Theories of Chilean Cinema in the World" examines Chilean filmmakers at international film festivals, and political and affective shifts in the contemporary Chilean documentary. "On the Margins of Hollywood: Chilean Genre Flicks" explores on the emergence of Chilean horror cinema and the performance of martial arts in Chilean films. "Other Texts and Other Lands: Intermediality and Adaptation Beyond Chile(an Cinema)" covers the intermedial transfer from Chilean literature to transnational film and from music video to film. "Migrations of Gender and Genre" contrasts films depicting transgender people in Chile and beyond. "Politicized Intimacies, Transnational Affects: Debating (Post)memory and History" analyzes representations of Chile’s traumatic past in contemporary documentary and approaches mourning as a politicized act in postdictatorship cultural production. Intended for scholars, students, and researchers of film and Latin American studies, Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World evaluates an active and emergent film movement that has yet to receive sufficient attention in global cinema studies.