ABSTRACT
The interconnections between Latin American cinema and photography from the sound period through the 1970s reflect tensions between two allied visual media, the range of negotiations of intermedial formats, and the dynamics of assimilation/hybridization that characterized the relations. This chapter looks at exemplary sites and various case studies that dramatically underscore the creative synergies that these tensions foment. The examples are drawn from commercial fictional cinema in the early decades and the increasingly more political emergence of photographic documentaries aligned with popular social movements in the latter decades. The chapter analyzes the relationship between film and photography in the context of Latin American political cinemas in the 1960s and 1970s through four case studies of political and social films—from Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. By focusing on the use of still photography and its relationship to images in movement, it illustrates the existence of a particular Latin American practice.
