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Klappentext Twenty interviews with key figures of Latin American cinema, covering three decades and ranging from Argentina to Mexico Zusammenfassung Twenty interviews with key figures of Latin American cinema, covering three decades and ranging from Argentina to Mexico
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. The Documentary Impulse: The Drama of Reality
- 1. Fernando Birri (Argentina), The Roots of Documentary Realism
- 2. Mario Handler (Uruguay), Starting from Scratch: Artisanship and Agitprop
- 3. Jorge Silva and Marta RodrÍguez (Colombia), Cine-Sociology and Social Change
- 4. Jorge SanjinÉs (Bolivia), Revolutionary Cinema: The Bolivian Experience
- 5. Patricio GuzmÁn (Chile), Politics and the Documentary in People’s Chile
- 6. Emilio RodrÍguez VÁzquez and Carlos Vicente Ibarra (Puerto Rico and Nicaragua), Filmmaking in Nicaragua: From Insurrection to INCINE
- 7. Helena Solberg-Ladd (Brazil and United States), The View from the United States
- Part II. Fictional Filmmaking: The Reality of Drama
- 8. Glauber Rocha (Brazil), Cinema Novo and the Dialectics of Popular Culture
- 9. TomÁs GutiÉrrez Alea (Cuba), Beyond the Reflection of Reality
- 10. Nelson Pereira dos Santos (Brazil), Toward a Popular Cinema
- 11. Humberto SolÁs (Cuba), Every Point of Arrival Is a Point of Departure
- 12. Antonio Eguino (Bolivia), Neorealism in Bolivia
- 13. Carlos Diegues (Brazil), The Mind of Cinema Novo
- 14. RaÚl Ruiz (Chile and France), Between Institutions
- 15. Marcela FernÁndez Violante (Mexico), Inside the Mexican Film Industry: A Woman’s Perspective
- Part III. Behind the Scenes
- 16. Nelson Villagra (Chile), The Actor at Home and in Exile
- 17. Walter Achugar (Uruguay and Latin America at Large), Using Movies to Make Movies
- 18. Enrique Colina (Cuba), The Film Critic on Prime Time
- 19. Julio GarcÍa Espinosa (Cuba), Theory and Practice of Film and Popular Culture in Cuba
- 20. Alfonso Gumucio DagrÓn (Bolivia and Latin America at Large), A Product of Circumstances: Reflections of a Media Activist
- For Further Reading
- Appendix: Films and Writings by Latin American Directors
- Index of Films
- General Index
About the author
Julianne Burton-Carvajal is a professor emerita of literature at the University of California-Santa Cruz.
