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Book SynopsisThis collection of original essays focuses on the cross-currents and points of contact among Spain, Portugal and Latin America and their impact on the regions' film industries. This book focuses on the cross-currents and points of contact in film production among so-called Hispanic countries (Spain, Portugal and Latin America), and in particular the impact that co-production and supranational funding initiatives are having on both the film industries and the films of Latin America in the twenty-first century. Together with chapters that discuss and further develop transnational approaches to reading films in the Hispanic and Latin American context, the volume includes chapters that focus on funding initiatives, such as IBERMEDIA, that are aimed at Spain, Portugal and Latin America. An analysis of such initiatives facilitates a nuanced discussion of the range of meanings afforded to the term transnationalism: from the workings of those driven by economic imperatives, such as co-productions and 'Hispanic' film festivals, to the cultural, for example the invention of a marketable 'Latinamericaness' in Spain, or a 'Hispanic aesthetic' elsewhere. Stephanie Dennison is Reader in Brazilian Studies at the University of Leeds
Trade ReviewThis volume offers an insightful synthesis of the cross currents and co-operation in film production between Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula..a useful book for university students, especially at honours level, and for some academics working in this area. I would expect it to fall into the category of recommended reading, particularly for courses dealing with Hispanic and Latin-American cinema in both departments of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH VISUAL STUDIES *
Table of ContentsEditor's Introduction - Stephanie Dennison National, Transnational and Post-national:Issues in Contemporary Film-making in the Hispanic World - Stephanie Dennison Redefining Transnational Cinemas:A Transdisciplinary Perspective - Libia Villazana Deconstructing and Reconstructing 'Transnational Cinema' - Deborah Shaw Ibero-Latin American Co-productions: Transnational Cinema, Spain's Public Relations Venture or Both? - Tamara Falicov Building Latin American Cinema in Europe: Cine en Construcción/ Cinéma en construction - Núria Triana-Toribio Pedro Almodóvar's Latin-American 'Business' - Marvin D'Lugo Transnational Film Financing and Contemporary Peruvian Cinema: The Case of Josué Méndez - Sarah Barrow The Silenced Screen: Fostering a Film Industry in Paraguay - Catherine Leen Finance and Co-productions in Brazil - Alessandra Meleiro Epilogue - Stephanie Dennison Works Cited - Stephanie Dennison
