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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784105203321

Titolo

Framing Latin American cinema [[electronic resource] ] : contemporary critical perspectives / / Ann Marie Stock, editor ; foreword by Ambrosio Fornet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8166-8823-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Hispanic issues ; ; v. 15

Altri autori (Persone)

StockAnn Marie

Disciplina

791.43/098

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Political aspects - Latin America

Motion pictures - Social aspects - Latin America

Motion pictures - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Through Other Worlds and Other Times: Critical Praxis and Latin American Cinema; Chapter 1 High-Rise Apartments, Arcades, Cars, and Hoteles de citas: Urban Discourse and the Reconstruction of the Public/Private Divide in 1960's Buenos Aires; Chapter 2 Backwards Blindness: Brazilian Cinema of the 1980's; Chapter 3 Recent Colombian Cinema: Public Histories and Private Stories; Chapter 4 When the Mountains Tremble: Images of Ethnicity in a Transcultural Text; Chapter 5 How Real Is Reel? Fernando de Fuentes's Revolutionary Trilogy

Chapter 6 Kiss of the Spider Woman, Novel, Play, and Film: Homosexuality and the Discourse of the Maternal in a Third World Prison Chapter 7 Moving to Thought: The Inspired Reflective Cinema of Fernando Pérez; Chapter 8 Román Chalbaud: The ""National"" Melodrama on an Air of Bolero; Chapter 9 The Persistence of Vision: Going to the Movies in Colombia; Chapter 10 Mexican Melodramas of Patriarchy: Specificity of a Transcultural Form; Chapter 11 Queering the Patriarchy in Hermosillo's Doña Herlinda y su hijo

Chapter 12 Will There Be Latin American Cinema in the Year 2000? Visual Culture in a Post-national Era Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This illuminating analysis embraces multiple modes of scholarship, juxtaposes feature films and documentaries, and locates cinema within



larger cultural debates.