Visible nations : Latin American cinema and video

Visible nations : Latin American cinema and video / Chon A. Noriega, editor.

In the current "global" moment, the study of Latin American cinema has become insistently nationala phenomenon fully explored in this collection of essays by some of the most interesting and innovative scholars of media and Latin American culture working today.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Noriega, Chon A., 1961- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Latin America.
Video recordings > Latin America.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Motion pictures
Video recordings
Latin America
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Chon A. Noriega
  • pt. 1. Retheorizing national cinema: the classical period. El automóvil gris and the advent of Mexican classicism / Charles Ramírez Berg. Crossing nations and genres: traveling filmmakers / Ana M. López. Araya across time and space: competing canons of national (Venezuelan) and international film histories / Julianne Burton-Carvajal. Transcultured anticommunism: Cold War Hollywood in postwar Mexico / Seth Fein
  • pt. 2. Desire and the nation: contemporary cinema. Fulfilling fantasies, diverting pleasures: Ana Carolina and Das tripas coração / Laura Podalsky. Performing the nation in Sergio Toledo's Vera / Monica Hulsbus. Pornography and "the popular" in post-revolutionary Mexico: the Club Tívoli from Spota to Isaac / Claire F. Fox. Consuming tacos and enchiladas: gender and the nation in Como agua para chocolate / Harmony H. Wu. The world according to Plaff: reassessing Cuban cinema in the late 1980s / Gilberto Moisés Blasini
  • pt. 3. Local as global politics: alternative media. Grassroots video in Latin America / Patricia Aufderheide. Latin American women's alternative film and video: the case of Cine Mujer, Colombia / Ilene S. Goldman. Local television and community politics in Brazil: São Paulo's TV Anhembi / Brian Goldfarb. Steadfast love and subversive acts: the politics of La ofrenda: The days of the dead / Kathleen Newman.

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