Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Breaking into the Global Market
Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Breaking into the Global Market
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Description
Explores Latin America cinema, considering the reasons for the commercial and critical successes of movies such as "City of God", "The Motorcycle Diaries", "Y Tu Mam TambiZn," and "Nine Queens", as well as other films that failed to break out on the international circuit. This book is intended for the students and scholars of Latin American film.
Recommended.
With an eye to the national and international contexts of production and reception of contemporary Latin American cinema, essays in this exciting collection focus on international blockbusters as well as introduce readers to lesser known films. A welcome and valuable addition to the growing scholarship on the cinemas of the region.
The great merit of this book is to acknowledge current Latin American cinema's international success as an aesthetic achievement, as well as a commercial one. Through in-depth case studies, it contributes a fascinating new chapter to world cinema history.
Again and again, these essays strip away the masks to reveal Latin American cinema as it really is: specific and local, national and historical, not a homogeneous product lately discovered by the United States and Europe as a marketable commodity. A valuable compendium for anyone who wants to know what's up with cinema in Latin America today.
Deborah Shaw is senior lecturer in film studies at Portsmouth University.
Recommended.
With an eye to the national and international contexts of production and reception of contemporary Latin American cinema, essays in this exciting collection focus on international blockbusters as well as introduce readers to lesser known films. A welcome and valuable addition to the growing scholarship on the cinemas of the region.
The great merit of this book is to acknowledge current Latin American cinema's international success as an aesthetic achievement, as well as a commercial one. Through in-depth case studies, it contributes a fascinating new chapter to world cinema history.
Again and again, these essays strip away the masks to reveal Latin American cinema as it really is: specific and local, national and historical, not a homogeneous product lately discovered by the United States and Europe as a marketable commodity. A valuable compendium for anyone who wants to know what's up with cinema in Latin America today.
Deborah Shaw is senior lecturer in film studies at Portsmouth University.