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Book SynopsisA 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.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1
Maria M. Delgado, Stephen M. Hart, and Randal Johnson
Part I The Film Industry: Funding, Production, Distribution, Exhibition 19
1 Television and the Transformation of the Star System in Brazil 21
Randal Johnson
2 Stardom in Spanish America 36
Leah Kemp
3 Audiovisual Sector Incentives and Public Policy in Selected Latin American Countries 54
Steve Solot
4 Film, the Audiovisual, and New Technology in Latin America: Public Policy in the Context of Digital Convergence 71
Roque Gonzalez Translated by Franny Brogan and Randal Johnson
5 Film Funding Opportunities for Latin American Filmmakers: A Case for Further North–South Collaboration in Training and Film Festival Initiatives 85
Tamara L. Falicov
6 The Film Festival Circuit: Identity Transactions in a Translational Economy 99
Mar Diestro‐Dopido
Part II Continental Currents: Documenting and Representing Identities 115
7 Latin American Documentary: A Political Trajectory 117
Michael Chanan
8 The Politics of Landscape 133
Jens Andermann
9 From Postmodernity to Post‐Identity: Latin American Film after the Great Divide 150
Geoffrey Kantaris
10 Indigenous Filmmaking in Latin America 167
Charlotte Gleghorn
11 What Is the Child for Latin American Cinema? Spectatorship, Mobility, and Authenticity in Pedro Gonzalez Rubio’s Alamar (2009) 187
Deborah Martin
12 Affect, Nostalgia, and Modernization: Popular Music in Twenty‐First‐Century Mexican and Chilean Cinema 201
Duncan Wheeler
Part III National Cinemas: Initiatives, Movements, and Challenges 217
13 Memories of Cuban Cinema, 1959–2015 219
Joel del Rio and Enrique Colina Translated by Stephen M. Hart
14 Politics, Memory and Fiction(s) in Contemporary Argentine Cinema: The Kirchnerist Years 238
Maria M. Delgado and Cecilia Sosa
15 Neoliberalism and the Politics of Affect and Self‐Authorship in Contemporary Chilean Cinema 269
Joanna Page
16 Popular Cinema/Quality Television: A New Paradigm for the Mexican Mediascape 285
Paul Julian Smith
17 Alumbramento, Friendship, and Failure: New Filmmaking in Brazil in the Twenty‐First Century 294
Denilson Lopes Translated by Stephen M. Hart
18 The Reinvention of Colombian Cinema 307
Juana Suarez
19 Rendering the Invisible Visible: Reflections on the Costa Rican Film Industry in the Twenty‐First Century 325
Liz Harvey
Part IV New Configurations: Travel, Technology, Television 341
20 The Horizontal Spread of a Vertical Malady: Cosmopolitanism and History in Pernambuco’s Recent Cinematic Sensation 343
Lucia Nagib
21 Artists’ Cinema in Brazil 357
Andre Parente Translated by Randal Johnson
22 Brazilian Film and Television in Times of Intermedia Diversification 375
Esther Hamburger
23 A Mexican in Hollywood or Hollywood in Mexico? Globalized Culture and Alfonso Cuaron’s Films 392
German Martinez Martinez
24 Latin American Cinema’s Trojan Horse 408
Stephen M. Hart and Owen Williams
Part V The Interview Corner: Pragmatics and Praxis 431
25 “Finding the right balance”: An Interview with Martin Rejtman 433
Maria M. Delgado
26 “Escaping from an ordinary world into a more epic one”: An Interview with Alvaro Brechner 446
Maria M. Delgado
27 “The capacity to create mystery”: An Interview with Pablo Larrain 459
Maria M. Delgado
28 “A story might be similar from different places, but the language of representation is not”: An Interview with Jeannette Paillan 473
Charlotte Gleghorn
29 “Meeting points”: An Interview with Mariana Rondon and Marite Ugas 487
Maria M. Delgado
30 “Film is about connecting”: An Interview with Diego Luna 499
Maria M. Delgado
31 “The bridge between the others and us”: An Interview with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 509
Damon Wise
Index 519
