ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema is the most comprehensive survey of Latin American cinemas available in a single volume. While highlighting state-of-the-field research, essays also offer readers a cohesive overview of multiple facets of filmmaking in the region, from the production system and aesthetic tendencies, to the nature of circulation and reception. The volume recognizes the recent "new cinemas" in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico, and, at the same time, provides a much deeper understanding of the contemporary moment by commenting on the aesthetic trends and industrial structures in earlier periods. The collection features essays by established scholars as well as up-and-coming investigators in ways that depart from existing scholarship and suggest new directions for the field.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|118 pages
Historiographies
chapter 2|13 pages
Silent and early sound cinema in Latin America
part II|115 pages
Interrogating critical paradigms
chapter 9|15 pages
Cosmopolitan nationalisms
chapter 15|12 pages
Productions of space/places of construction
part III|30 pages
Business practices
chapter 17|15 pages
Transnational networks of financing and distribution
chapter 18|13 pages
The interlocking dynamics of domestic and international film festivals
part IV|96 pages
Intermedialities