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The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity

Author : Nadia Lie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319451381

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The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity by Nadia Lie Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the flourishing genre of the contemporary Latin American road movie, of which Diarios de motocicleta and Y tu mamá también are only the best-known examples. It offers the first systematic survey of the genre and explains why the road movie is key to contemporary Latin American cinema and society. Proposing the new category of “counter-road movie,” and paying special attention to the genre’s intricate relationship to modernity, Nadia Lie charts the variety of the road movie through films by both renowned and emerging filmmakers. The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity engages with ongoing debates on transnationalism and takes the reader along a wide range of topics, from exile to undocumented migration, from tourism to internally displaced people.

The Motorcycle Diaries

Author : Nadia Lie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000790344

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The Motorcycle Diaries by Nadia Lie Pdf

The first monograph to examine Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries, this book explains the significance of Salles’ film with respect to the specific category of ‘youth culture’ as a historically and culturally situated concept. The Motorcycle Diaries looks at the film’s engagement with ‘emerging adulthood’, the importance of travel as a source of self-discovery, and the film’s impact on the iconicity of Che Guevara, the international emblem of a restless, rebellious youth. Combining insights from transnational film studies, tourism studies and affect theory, as well as drawing on extensive historical materials, this book provides not only a necessary addition to existing scholarship on this popular movie, but also an inspiring model for the analysis of film in relation to youth culture - a burgeoning field of interest in Latin American scholarship. It will interest any scholar in film studies, specifically transnational cinemas, global cinema, Latin American cinema, Latin American history, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, tourism studies and global politics. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

La road movie y la counter-road movie en América Latina : una modernidad ambivalente

Author : Nadia Lie
Publisher : Bonilla Artigas Editores
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9786078918300

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La road movie y la counter-road movie en América Latina : una modernidad ambivalente by Nadia Lie Pdf

Este libro constituye la primera monografía sistemática y exhaustiva de la road movie latinoamericana, uno de los géneros más productivos y populares en el cine latinoamericano de hoy. Dedicando atención tanto a películas ya clásicas como Diarios de motocicleta e Y tu mamá también, así como a las muchas road movies hechas por una generación más joven y de talento, el libro no sólo proporciona una ruta a través de este territorio extenso y apasionante, sino que también brinda conceptos teóricos innovadores y especialmente apropiados para el estudio de este género en el contexto latinoamericano. La relación desafiante que mantiene el género con el concepto de la modernidad, y la presencia llamativa de numerosas "contra-road movies" en América Latina -variante identificada aquí por primera vez- son dos focos de interés que atraviesan los diferentes capítulos. Al mismo tiempo, el libro demuestra que el género de la road movie está en el centro de muchos de los problemas claves del mundo actual: desde el exilio hasta la migración indocumentada, pasando por el turismo y los desplazamientos forzados. Dialogando críticamente con el paradigma actual de los estudios transnacionales del cine, y basándose en un corpus de casi 200 películas de todos los países de América Latina, este libro es un punto de referencia necesario para cualquier interesado en el cine latinoamericano de hoy.

Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film

Author : María Soledad Paz-MacKay,Argelia González Hurtado
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666934267

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Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film by María Soledad Paz-MacKay,Argelia González Hurtado Pdf

Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film offers a series of perspectives, produced from a diverse array of aesthetic and theoretical approaches, that build on previous studies about cinematic landscape and space while addressing it from a regional perspective. This book explores how contemporary Latin American filmmakers have included, created, or transformed different types of landscapes in their works. The chapters highlight the centrality of landscape as a meaningful space in film, composed in addition to the image, sound, and movement. The core of the edited collection revolves around films where landscape emerges as a crucial element to transmit the urgency of issues affecting diverse Latin American societies. The representation of emerging social actors, such as Indigenous groups, Afro-Latin Americans, LGBTQIA+ communities, migrants, environmentalists, and women, offers a localized view of sociocultural, political, and environmental challenges from marginalized and dissenting voices.

Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema

Author : Carolyn Fornoff,Gisela Heffes
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438484051

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Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema by Carolyn Fornoff,Gisela Heffes Pdf

Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema brings together fourteen scholars to analyze Latin American cinema in dialogue with recent theories of posthumanism and ecocriticism. Together they grapple with how Latin American filmmakers have attempted to "push past the human," and destabilize the myth of anthropocentric exceptionalism that has historically been privileged by cinema and has led to the current climate crisis. While some chapters question the very nature of this enterprise—whether cinema should or even could actualize such a maneuver beyond the human—others signal the ways in which the category of the "human" itself is interrogated by Latin American cinema, revealed to be a fiction that excludes more than it unifies. This volume explores how the moving image reinforces or contests the division between human and nonhuman, and troubles the settler epistemic partition of culture and nature that is at the core of the climate crisis. As the first volume to specifically address how such questions are staged by Latin American cinema, this book brings together analysis of films that respond to environmental degradation, as well as those that articulate a posthumanist ethos that blurs the line between species.

Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics

Author : Jens Andermann,Gabriel Giorgi,Victoria Saramago
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110775969

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Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics by Jens Andermann,Gabriel Giorgi,Victoria Saramago Pdf

The Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics offers a comprehensive overview of Latin American aesthetic and conceptual production addressing the more-than-human environment at the intersection between art, activism, and critique. Fields include literature, performance, film, and other audiovisual media as well as their interactions with community activisms. Scholars who have helped establish environmental approaches in the field as well as emergent critical voices revisit key concepts such as ecocriticism, (post-)extractivism, and multinaturalism, while opening new avenues of dialogue with areas including critical race theory and ethnicity, energy humanities, queer-*trans studies, and infrastructure studies, among others. This volume both traces these genealogies and maps out key positions in this increasingly central field of Latin Americanism, at the same time as they relate it to the environmental humanities at large. By showing how artistic and literary productions illuminate critical zones of environmental thought, articulating urgent social and material issues with cultural archives, historical approaches and conceptual interventions, this volume offers cutting-edge critical tools for approaching literature and the arts from new angles that call into question the nature/culture boundary.

Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema

Author : Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501384684

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Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema by Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez Pdf

Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema explores how contemporary films (2000-2020) participate in the evolution and circulation of images and sounds that in many ways define how indigenous communities are imagined, at a local, regional and global scale. The volume reviews the diversity of portrayals from a chronological, geopolitical, linguistic, epistemic-ontological, transnational and intersectional, paradigm-changing and self-representational perspective, allocating one chapter to each theme. The corpus of this study consists of 68 fictional features directed by non-indigenous filmmakers, 31 cinematic works produced by indigenous directors/communities, and 22 Cine Regional (Regional Cinema) films. The book also draws upon a significant number of engravings, drawings, paintings, photographs and films, produced between 1493 and 2000, as primary sources for the historical review of the visual representations of indigeneity. Through content and close (textual) analysis, interviews with audiences, surveys and social media posts analysis, the author looks at the contexts in which Latin American films circulate in international festivals and the paradigm shifts introduced by self-representational cinema and Roma (Mexico, 2018). Conclusively, the author provides the foundations of histrionic indigeneity, a theory that explains how overtly histrionic proclivities play a significant role in depictions of an imagined indigenous Other in recent films.

The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Author : Deborah Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137528223

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What is the child for Latin American cinema? This book aims to answer that question, tracing the common tendencies of the representation of the child in the cinema of Latin American countries, and demonstrating the place of the child in the movements, genres and styles that have defined that cinema. Deborah Martin combines theoretical readings of the child in cinema and culture, with discussions of the place of the child in specific national, regional and political contexts, to develop in-depth analyses and establish regional comparisons and trends. She pays particular attention to the narrative and stylistic techniques at play in the creation of the child's perspective, and to ways in which the presence of the child precipitates experiments with film aesthetics. Bringing together fresh readings of well-known films with attention to a range of little-studied works, The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema examines films from the recent and contemporary period, focussing on topics such as the death of the child in ‘street child’ films, the role of the child in post-dictatorship filmmaking and the use of child characters to challenge gender and sexual ideologies. The book also aims to place those analyses in a historical context, tracing links with important precursors, and paying attention to the legacy of the child’s figuring in the mid-century movements of melodrama and the New Latin American Cinema.

Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Author : Claudia Sandberg,Carolina Rocha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319770109

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Contemporary Latin American Cinema by Claudia Sandberg,Carolina Rocha Pdf

Contemporary Latin American Cinema investigates the ways in which neoliberal measures of privatization, de-regularization and austerity introduced in Latin America during the 1990s have impacted film production and film narratives. The collection examines the relationship between economic policies and the films that depict recent transformations in many Latin American countries, demonstrating how contemporary Latin American film has not only criticized and resisted, but also benefitted from neoliberal advancements. Based on films produced in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru since 2010, the fourteen case studies illustrate neoliberalism’s effects, from big industries to small national cinemas. It also shows the new types of producers that have emerged, and the novel patterns of distribution, exhibition and consumption that shape and influence the Latin American filmscape. Through industry studies, reception analyses and close readings, this book establishes an informative and accessible text for scholars and students alike.

When the World Laughs

Author : William V. Costanzo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190925017

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When the World Laughs by William V. Costanzo Pdf

When the World Laughs is a book about the intersection of humor, history, and culture. It explores how film comedy, one of the world's most popular movie genres, reflects the values and beliefs of those who enjoy its many forms, its most enduring characters and stories, its most entertaining routines and funniest jokes. What people laugh at in Europe, Africa, or the Far East reveals important truths about their differences and common bonds. By investigating their traditions of humor, by paying close attention to what kinds of comedy cross national boundaries or what gets lost in translation, this study leads us to a deeper understanding of each other and ourselves. Section One begins with a survey of the theories and research that best explain how humor works. It clarifies the varieties of comic forms and styles, identifies the world's most archetypal figures of fun, and traces the history of the world's traditions of humor from earliest times to today. It also examines the techniques and aesthetics of film comedy: how movies use the world's rich repertoire of amusing stories, gags, and wit to make us laugh and think. Section Two offers a close look at national and regional trends. It applies the concepts set forth earlier to specific films-across a broad spectrum of sub-genres, historical eras, and cultural contexts-providing an insightful comparative study of the world's great traditions of film comedy.

Journeys on Screen

Author : Louis Bayman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474421843

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Journeys on Screen by Louis Bayman Pdf

Addressing the appeal of the journey narrative from pre-cinema to new media and through documentary, fiction and the spaces between, this collection reveals the journey to be a persistent presence across cinema and in cultural modernity.

Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India

Author : Lalitha Gopalan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030540968

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Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India by Lalitha Gopalan Pdf

This book provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.D., Kaul, Chauthi Koot, Cosmic Sex, and Gaali Beeja, to undercut the dominance of Bollywood focused film studies. Gopalan assembles films from Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Trivandrum, in addition to independent productions in Bombay cinema, as a way of privileging understudied works that deserve critical attention. The book uses close readings of films and a deep investigation of film style to draw attention to the advent of digital technologies while remaining fully cognizant of ‘the digital’ as a cryptic formulation for considering the sea change in the global circulation of film and finance. This dual focus on both the techno-material conditions of Indian cinema and the film narrative offers a fulsome picture of changing narratives and shifting genres and styles.

Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century

Author : Cynthia Vich,Sarah Barrow
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030525125

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Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century by Cynthia Vich,Sarah Barrow Pdf

This is the first English-language book to provide a critical panorama of the last twenty years of Peruvian cinema. Through analysis of the nation’s diverse modes of filmmaking, it offers an insight into how global debates around cinema are played out on and off screen in a distinctive national context. The insertion of post-conflict Peru within neoliberalism resulted in widespread commodification of all areas of life, significantly impacting cinema culture. Consequently, the principal structural concept of this collection is the interplay between film production and market forces, an interaction which makes dynamism and instability the defining features of 21st-century Peruvian cinema.

Politics of Children in Latin American Cinema

Author : María Soledad Paz-MacKay,Omar Rodriguez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498597425

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Politics of Children in Latin American Cinema by María Soledad Paz-MacKay,Omar Rodriguez Pdf

Politics of Children in Latin American Cinema explores the trend of portraying children and adolescents in a subjective, adult-constructed point of view in Latin American cinema. This trend, in which the filmmakers are able to express their own anxieties while subordinating the child’s, draws new political implications to these constructions of children’s subjective character. Chapters in this volume touch on intersectional historic contexts, such as the Brazilian judicial system, Mexico’s youth protest, Venezuelan social crisis, the Southern Cone’s post-dictatorships, and race and gender issues in Peru, Ecuador, and Argentina to elucidate these implications and how they affect child agency. Contributors to this book argue for children’s increased agency in film and in society as they analyze films in which children have more active roles. These films mirror the shift toward filmmaking that emphasizes innovative narratives and aesthetic techniques that allow children to be portrayed as social commentators, rather than passive figures. Scholars of Latin American studies, film studies, history, sociology, race studies, and gender studies will find this book particularly useful.