Latin American cinema : a comparative history

Latin American cinema : a comparative history / Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez.

"A comparative history of Latin America's national cinemas over the course of five major periods: silent cinema, studio cinema, neorealism/art cinema, the New Latin American Cinema, and contemporary cinema. Close readings of approximately fifty films illustrate the major aesthetic, economi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schroeder Rodríguez, Paul A., 1968- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Latin America > History.
Motion picture industry > Latin America > History.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Film
Latin America
Lateinamerika
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Conventional silent cinema
  • Avant-garde silent cinema
  • Transition to sound
  • Birth and growth of an industry
  • Crisis and decline of studio cinema
  • Neorealism and art cinema
  • New Latin American cinema's militant phase
  • New Latin American cinema's Neobaroque phase
  • Collapse and rebirth of an industry
  • Latin American cinema in the twenty-first century
  • Conclusion : a triangulated cinema
  • Appendix : discourses of modernity in Latin America.

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