Visible nations : Latin American cinema and video / Chon A. Noriega, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Noriega, Chon A., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Latin America.

Motion pictures.

Video recordings--Latin America.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the current ""global"" moment, the study of Latin American cinema has become insistently national-a phenomenon fully explored in this collection of essays by some of the most interesting and innovative scholars of media and Latin American culture working today.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Film and Video Distributors; Introduction; Part I. RETHEORIZING NATIONAL CINEMA: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD; 1. El automóvil gris and the Advent of Mexican Classicism; 2. Crossing Nations and Genres: Traveling Filmmakers; 3. Araya across Time and Space: Competing Canons of National (Venezuelan) and International Film Histories; 4. Transcultured Anticommunism: Cold War Hollywood in Postwar Mexico; Part II. DESIRE AND THE NATION: CONTEMPORARY CINEMA; 5. Fulfilling Fantasies, Diverting Pleasures: Ana Carolina and Das tripas coração

6. Performing the Nation in Sergio Toledo's Vera 7. Pornography and ""the Popular"" in Post-Revolutionary Mexico: The Club Tívoli from Spota to Isaac; 8. Consuming Tacos and Enchiladas: Gender and the Nation in Como agua para chocolate; 9. The World according to Plaff: Reassessing Cuban Cinema in the Late 1980's; Part III. LOCAL AS GLOBAL POLITICS: ALTERNATIVE MEDIA; 10. Grassroots Video in Latin America; 11. Latin American Women's Alternative Film and Video: The Case of Cine Mujer, Colombia; 12. Local Television and Community Politics in Brazil: São Paulo's TV Anhembi

13. Steadfast Love and Subversive Acts: The Politics of La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8166-9026-X

OCLC:

476094778