{"product_id":"latin-american-cinema-9780520288638","title":"Latin American Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTransforms our understanding of the region's cultural history in the last hundred years by highlighting how key players such as the church and the state have affected cinema's unique ability to help shape public discourse and construct modern identities in a region marked by ongoing struggles for social justice and liberation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The comparative approach here serves not to erase the specificities of national experience in favour of some sort of homogenous Pan-American depiction of cinema's role in Latin America. Rather, it allows a nuanced understanding of the wider ideological developments that underscored the shifts in cinema across the region. It also allows the author eloquently to bring together local, national, and transnational productions in what he refers to as a 'triangulated' view of cinema's trajectory in the region.\" Australian Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Acknowledgments   Introduction  Organization of the Book  Latin America's Multiple Modernities   PART ONE. SILENT CINEMA  1. Conventional Silent Cinema  A Cinema by and for Criollos  Periodization  Actualities (1897-1907)  Transition (1908-15)  Feature Narrative Cinema (1915-30)  Film d'art * Religious Films * Popular Entertainment Films * The Legacy of the Silent Period  2. Avant-Garde Silent Cinema  A Cinema Against the Grain  Sao Paulo, A Sinfonia da Metropole (1929) * Ganga Bruta (1933) * !Que viva Mexico! (1931) * Limite (1929)  An Avant-Garde Moment   PART TWO. STUDIO CINEMA  3. Transition to Sound  Latin American Studios  Latin American Studio Cinema as a Vernacular of Hollywood's International Style  \"Hispanic\" Films and the Consolidation of Hollywood's International Style  The Day You Love Me (1935)  Alternatives to Hollywood's International Style  Fernando de Fuentes's Trilogy of the Mexican Revolution  4. Birth and Growth of an Industry  The Musical Birth of an Industry  Out on the Big Ranch (1936)  Argentinean Cinema's \"Golden Age\"  Prisioneros de la tierra (1939) * Closed Door (1939)  Social Comedies  The Impact of the Good Neighbor Policy on Latin American Cinema  The Mexican School of Cinema  Maria Candelaria (1943) * Rio Escondido (1947)  Studio Cinema and Peronism  God Bless You (1948)  The Corporatism of Latin American Studio Cinema  5. Crisis and Decline of Studio Cinema  From Good Neighbors to Cold War Containment  Parody as Symptom of the Crisis of Studio Cinema  Aventurera (1950)  Documentary and Newsreel Production During the Studio Era  The Legacy of Studio Cinema   PART THREE. NEOREALISM AND ART CINEMA  6. Neorealism and Art Cinema  Emergence of a Cinephile Culture  Convergence of Neorealism and Art Cinema in Latin America  Luis Bunuel  Los olvidados (1950) * This Strange Passion (1953)  Vera Cruz Studio and Its Aftermath  Rio, 40 Graus (1955) and Rio, Zona Norte (1957)  Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's Gothic Trilogy (1957-61)  The Legacy of Neorealism and Art Cinema   PART FOUR. NEW LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA  7. New Latin American Cinema's Militant Phase  Documentary Foundations  Epic Projections  Black God, White Devil (1963) * The Hour of the Furnaces (1968) * The Battle of Chile (1975-79)  Transition to a Neobaroque Praxis  Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)* Lucia (1968) * One Way or Another (1974)  8. New Latin American Cinema's Neobaroque Phase  The Colonial Roots of the Latin American Neobaroque  Frida Still Life (1983) * The Last Supper (1976) * La nacion clandestina (1989)  Theory of the New Latin American Cinema  Arc of the New Latin American Cinema   PART FIVE. CONTEMPORARY CINEMA  9. Collapse and Rebirth of an Industry  Neoliberal Restructuring  A Melorealist Cinema  The Marketing of Nostalgia  Strawberry and Chocolate (1993) * Central Station (1998) * Amores perros (2000)  10. Latin American Cinema in the Twenty-First Century  Suspenseful Narratives for Precarious Times  !Y tu mama tambien! (2001)  The Rise of the Woman Director  Lucrecia Martel's Salta Trilogy (2001-8) * The Milk of Sorrow (2009)  From Nostalgia to Suspense  Conclusion: A Triangulated Cinema   Appendix: Discourses of Modernity in Latin America  Notes  Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402883801431,"sku":"9780520288638","price":29.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520288638.jpg?v=1730481766","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/latin-american-cinema-9780520288638","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}