Expanding Cinemas - Experimental Filmmaking Across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic Since 1960

Explores experimental cinema and alternative film formats from across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic, from the 1960s to the present.
This is the first book on experimental cinemas of Latin American and Spain to offer a comprehensive look at old and new technologies, including Super 8, VHS, cell phones, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and more. From the militant films of the 1960s to today's expanded reality experiences, filmmakers in Argentina, Spain, Cuba, Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico have continually used alternative formats both to dialogue with international movements and to counter commercial cinematic trends. To make this argument and cover this vast geographic and historical terrain, Eduardo Ledesma adopts a transnational and intermedial approach, examining exchanges and associations between cineastes to better understand how their films were created and circulated. Ledesma works to untangle both the relations between media and the associations of experimental cinema to cultural phenomena such as diaspora, exile, displacement, and immigration. Throughout the book, connections are further made to other global avant-garde and alternative cinemas and formats, including in the United States.

About the author

Eduardo Ledesma is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes, 1900–2015, also from SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Eduardo Ledesma, Ledesma Eduardo
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2025
• EAN: 9798855800517
• ISBN: 9798855800517
• No. of pages: 474
• Series: SUNY series in Latin American Cinema
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Mexico, South America, European History, Spain, 20th Century, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, General and world history, History of the Americas, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Spain