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Reality Effects brings together the reflections of leading film scholars and critics from Latin America, the UK and the United States on the re-emergence of the real as a prime concern in contemporary Argentine and Brazilian film, and as a main reason for the acclaim both cinematographies have won among international audiences in recent years.
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Reviews
'This clearly organized collection of scholarly articles, destined to be a key work in its field, examines the reality effects discerned in to prominent recent film movements: the New Argentine Cinema and the Brazilian Retomada . . . The research for this volume proves wide-ranging and up-to-date, and insightful, innovative close readings of key films, such as Playing, are offered . . . Recommended.' Choice
'Essays in this important collection challenge the simplistic notion of the much heralded 'new Latin American cinema,' drawing our attention instead to the local conditions that govern recent films from Argentina and Brazil. New Argentine and Brazilian Cinema is an innovative contribution both to our understanding of reality effects in these regional cinemas and to our thinking about 'world cinema' more broadly.' - Andrea Noble, Durham University, UK
'Since Italian neo-realism, all new cinemas in the world have striven to approach and reveal reality. By assessing the new Argentine and Brazilian cinemas through their 'reality effects,' this book touches the political core of two thriving film production centres whose common language is truly universal.' - Lúcia Nagib, University of Leeds, UK
'This volume addresses key theoretical issues that have emerged with the dawn of the digital image by focusing on realism in contemporary Brazilian and Argentine cinema. The contributors consider the blurred and shifting boundaries between fiction anddocumentary in the specific context of two major Latin American cinema revivals that began in the 1990s. As a whole, the volume pushes forward critical debates around the concept of ´the real.´ It is thus indispensable reading for scholars and students of Latin American film and of film studies more generally.' - Lisa Shaw, University of Liverpool, UK
About the authors
José Carlos Avellar, Escola de Cinema Darcy Ribeiro, Brazil
David Oubiña, University of Buenos Aires and Universidad del Cine, Argentina
Andréa França, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Río de Janeiro, Brazil
Edgardo Dieleke, New York University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Joanna Page, University of Cambridge, UK
César Guimarães, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ivana Bentes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tom Cohen, University of Albany-SUNY, USA
Robert Stam, New York University, USA
Jens Andermann, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Domin Choi, Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad del Cine, Argentina
Álvaro Fernández Bravo, New York University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gonzalo Aguilar, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Argentine and Brazilian Cinema
Book Subtitle: Reality Effects
Editors: Jens Andermann, Álvaro Fernández Bravo
Series Title: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137304834
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30482-7Published: 20 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45461-7Published: 04 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-30483-4Published: 20 March 2013
Series ISSN: 1554-4028
Series E-ISSN: 2634-520X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 228
Topics: Screen Studies, Film History, Latin American Culture, Arts