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Latin American films are enjoying unprecedented success with audiences around the world, with filmmakers garnering top awards both in the United States and at international film festivals.
A Companion to Latin American Cinema brings together filmmakers, critics, historians, and scholars to provide a wide-ranging collection of newly commissioned essays and interviews that explore the ways in which Latin American cinema has established itself on the international film scene in the twenty-first century
The authors address the important national cinemas of such countries as Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, as well as the emerging cinematic traditions of Cuba, Bolivia, Guatemala, and others. Interviews with acclaimed auteurs and leading voices of Latin American cinema are also featured, including Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu and Chilean director Pablo Larraín. A variety of thematic, theoretical, and historical perspectives are explored, including new movements and developments in Latin American cinema and how technological advances have allowed smaller South and Central American nations to nurture a film industry without state funding. Scholarly and thought-provoking,
A Companion to Latin American Cinema offers bold insights into a cinematic tradition that has emerged at the vanguard of twenty-first-century filmmaking.
List of contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1
Maria M. Delgado, Stephen M. Hart, and Randal Johnson Part I The Film Industry: Funding, Production, Distribution, Exhibition 19 1 Television and the Transformation of the Star System in Brazil 21
Randal Johnson 2 Stardom in Spanish America 36
Leah Kemp 3 Audiovisual Sector Incentives and Public Policy in Selected Latin American Countries 54
Steve Solot 4 Film, the Audiovisual, and New Technology in Latin America: Public Policy in the Context of Digital Convergence 71
Roque Gonzalez Translated by
Franny Brogan and Randal Johnson 5 Film Funding Opportunities for Latin American Filmmakers: A Case for Further North-South Collaboration in Training and Film Festival Initiatives 85
Tamara L. Falicov 6 The Film Festival Circuit: Identity Transactions in a Translational Economy 99
Mar Diestro¿Dopido Part II Continental Currents: Documenting and Representing Identities 115 7 Latin American Documentary: A Political Trajectory 117
Michael Chanan 8 The Politics of Landscape 133
Jens Andermann 9 From Postmodernity to Post¿Identity: Latin American Film after the Great Divide 150
Geoffrey Kantaris 10 Indigenous Filmmaking in Latin America 167
Charlotte Gleghorn 11 What Is the Child for Latin American Cinema? Spectatorship, Mobility, and Authenticity in Pedro Gonzalez Rubio's
Alamar (2009) 187
Deborah Martin 12 Affect, Nostalgia, and Modernization: Popular Music in Twenty¿First¿Century Mexican and Chilean Cinema 201
Duncan Wheeler Part III National Cinemas: Initiatives, Movements, and Challenges 217 13 Memories of Cuban Cinema, 1959-2015 219
Joel del Rio and Enrique Colina Translated by
Stephen M. Hart 14 Politics, Memory and Fiction(s) in Contemporary Argentine Cinema: The Kirchnerist Years 238
Maria M. Delgado and Cecilia Sosa 15 Neoliberalism and the Politics of Affect and Self¿Authorship in Contemporary Chilean Cinema 269
Joanna Page 16 Popular Cinema/Quality Television: A New Paradigm for the Mexican Mediascape 285
Paul Julian Smith 17
Alumbramento, Friendship, and Failure: New Filmmaking in Brazil in the Twenty¿First Century 294
Denilson Lopes Translated by
Stephen M. Hart 18 The Reinvention of Colombian Cinema 307
Juana Suarez 19 Rendering the Invisible Visible: Reflections on the Costa Rican Film Industry in the Twenty¿First Century 325
Liz Harvey Part IV New Configurations: Travel, Technology, Television 341 20 The Horizontal Spread of a Vertical Malady: Cosmopolitanism and History in Pernambuco's Recent Cinematic Sensation 343
Lucia Nagib 21 Artists' Cinema in Brazil 357
Andre Parente Translated by
Randal Johnson 22 Brazilian Film and Television in Times of Intermedia Diversification 375
Esther Hamburger 23 A Mexican in Hollywood or Hollywood in Mexico? Globalized Culture and Alfonso Cuaron's Films 392
German Martinez Martinez 24 Latin American Cinema's Trojan Horse 408
Stephen M. Hart and Owen Williams Part V The Interview Corner: Pragmatics and Praxis 431 25 "Finding the right balance": An Interview with Martin Rejtman 433
Maria M. Delgado 26 "Escaping from an ordinary world into a more epic one": An Interview with Alvaro Brechner 446
Maria M. Delgado 27 "The capacity to create mystery": An Interview with Pablo Larrain 459
Maria M. Delgado 28 "A story might be similar from different places, but the language of representation is not": An Interview with Jeannette Paillan 473
Charlotte Gleghorn 29 "Meeting points": An Interview with Mariana Rondon and Marite Ugas 487
Maria M. Delgado 30 "Film is about connecting": An Interview with Diego Luna 499
Maria M. Delgado 31 "The bridge between the others and us": An Interview with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 509
Damon Wise Index 519
About the author
Maria M. Delgado is Professor and Director of Research at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, and has served as a programme advisor to the London Film Festival since 1997. Recent publications include
Spanish Cinema 1973-2010 (2013) and
A History of Theatre in Spain (2012). She is a regular contributor to
Sight & Sound and a range of BBC Radio programmes.
Stephen M. Hart is Professor of Latin American Film, Literature and Culture at University College London. He is also general editor of
Tamesis and founder-director of the Centre of César Vallejo Studies. His publications include
Gabriel García Márquez (2016),
Latin American Cinema (2015), and
A Companion to Latin American Literature (2007).
Randal Johnson is Distinguished Professor of Brazilian Literature and Cinema at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of
Manoel de Oliveira (2007),
Antônio das Mortes (1998),
The Film Industry in Brazil: Culture and the State (1987), and
Cinema Novo x 5: Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Film (1984).
Summary
A Companion to Latin American Cinema offers a wide-ranging collection of newly commissioned essays and interviews that explore the ways in which Latin American cinema has established itself on the international film scene in the twenty-first century.
