Overview
- The first volume to examine the relation between Latin American film and neoliberalism in a comprehensive form
- Includes investigations from emerging and eminent film scholars from a global context as it specifically relates to Latin American cultural production
- Traces the impact of neoliberalism from the late twentieth century up to the current moment
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Uneasy Neoliberal Narratives and Images
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Neoliberal Film Policies and the Global Market
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Defiant Actors and Marginal Spaces
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About this book
Contemporary Latin American Cinema investigates the ways in which neoliberal measures of privatization, de-regularization and austerity introduced in Latin America during the 1990s have impacted film production and film narratives. The collection examines the relationship between economic policies and the films that depict recent transformations in many Latin American countries, demonstrating how contemporary Latin American film has not only criticized and resisted, but also benefitted from neoliberal advancements. Based on films produced in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru since 2010, the fourteen case studies illustrate neoliberalism’s effects, from big industries to small national cinemas. It also shows the new types of producers that have emerged, and the novel patterns of distribution, exhibition and consumption that shape and influence the Latin American filmscape. Through industry studies, reception analyses and close readings, thisbook establishes an informative and accessible text for scholars and students alike.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Claudia Sandberg is a filmmaker and Senior Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research is concerned with relations between European and Latin American cinemas. Sandberg co-directed Peliculas Escondidas (2016), a documentary about Chilean émigré artists in East Germany, and is co-editor of The German Cinema Book 2 (2018).
Carolina Rocha is Professor of Spanish at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA. She specializes in contemporary Latin American cinema. She is author of Argentine Cinema and National Identity (1966-1976) (2017) and Masculinities in Contemporary Argentine Popular Cinema (2012), and editor of Modern Argentine Masculinities (2013) and several other volumes about Latin American film.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Book Subtitle: Resisting Neoliberalism?
Editors: Claudia Sandberg, Carolina Rocha
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77010-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77009-3Published: 06 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08347-2Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77010-9Published: 20 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 278
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Latin American Cinema and TV, Latin American Culture, Latin American Politics, Global Cinema and TV, Global/International Culture