Overview

Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film offers a series of perspectives, produced from a diverse array of aesthetic and theoretical approaches, that build on previous studies about cinematic landscape and space while addressing it from a regional perspective. This book explores how contemporary Latin American filmmakers have included, created, or transformed different types of landscapes in their works. The chapters highlight the centrality of landscape as a meaningful space in film, composed in addition to the image, sound, and movement. The core of the edited collection revolves around films where landscape emerges as a crucial element to transmit the urgency of issues affecting diverse Latin American societies. The representation of emerging social actors, such as Indigenous groups, Afro-Latin Americans, LGBTQIA+ communities, migrants, environmentalists, and women, offers a localized view of sociocultural, political, and environmental challenges from marginalized and dissenting voices.

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Author:   María Soledad Paz-MacKay ,  Argelia González Hurtado ,  Ana Cornide ,  Andy Leonel Barrientos-Gómez
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9781666934250

ISBN 10:   1666934259
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   07 March 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Section I: Urban and Rural Landscapes Chapter 1:Beyond Utopias: Urban Landscapes in Contemporary Venezuelan Cinema Omar Rodríguez Chapter 2: De vientres y aguas: Women and Landscape in El niño pez and El verano de los peces voladores Sandra V. Navarro Chapter 3: Enclaves of Entrapment: Capitalism’s Waste in Maquilapolis and 7 Prisoneiros Andy Leonel Barrientos-Gómez Section II: Colonial, Postcolonial, and Historical Landscapes Chapter 4: Unraveling the Colonial Landscape in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama. Amanda Holmes Chapter 5: Old Habits in the New Lima: Perverse Spaces in Octubre (2010) and Rosa Chumbe (2016). Pablo Salinas Chapter 6:Exploring Bolivian Cartography in Juan Carlos Valdivia's Films: Landscapes, Crises, and Transformations María Soledad Paz-Mackay and Argelia González Hurtado Section III: Violence and Gendered Landscapes Chapter 7:The Disappearing Landscape: Narratives of Displacement in Two Venezuelan Ecofeminist Documentaries Zaira Zarza Chapter 8: Desert as a Memoryscape in El guardián de la memoria Ana Cornide and Tatiana Navallo Chapter 9.Close-ups of Political Violence: Faces as Affective Landscape in Magallanes (2015) Marcos Moscoso Garay Chapter 10:The Landscape of Confinement: Abject Exclusion in Fernando Pérez’s La pared de las palabras (2014) Lauren Peña Section IV: Director’s Point of Views about Cinematic Landscape Chapter 11: In Conversation with Filmmaker Francisco Huichaqueo Bridget V. Franco Chapter 12: Landscapes of Haptic Visuality and Affects: A Conversation with Cuban Filmmaker Patricia Ramos Maybel Mesa Morales

Reviews

This is an excellent and timely contribution to the dynamic field of Latin American Cinema studies. The researchers highlight how landscapes in contemporary cinemas from the region dynamically shape the films that we see. No longer considered settings or backdrops, these authors show how these landscapes are just as important to the works as are the plots and character development. The researchers bring news perspectives to the cinematography of space in current cinemas of the region. --Michelle Leigh Farrell, Fairfield University

Author Information

María Soledad Paz-Mackay is associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages at St. Francis Xavier University. Argelia González Hurtado is associate professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

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