Framing Latin American cinema : contemporary critical perspectives / Ann Marie Stock, editor ; foreword by Ambrosio Fornet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stock, Ann Marie.

Series:

Hispanic issues ; 15.

Hispanic issues ; v. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Latin America.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--Latin America.

Motion pictures--Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This illuminating analysis embraces multiple modes of scholarship, juxtaposes feature films and documentaries, and locates cinema within larger cultural debates.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Through Other Worlds and Other Times: Critical Praxis and Latin American Cinema; Chapter 1 High-Rise Apartments, Arcades, Cars, and Hoteles de citas: Urban Discourse and the Reconstruction of the Public/Private Divide in 1960's Buenos Aires; Chapter 2 Backwards Blindness: Brazilian Cinema of the 1980's; Chapter 3 Recent Colombian Cinema: Public Histories and Private Stories; Chapter 4 When the Mountains Tremble: Images of Ethnicity in a Transcultural Text; Chapter 5 How Real Is Reel? Fernando de Fuentes's Revolutionary Trilogy

Chapter 6 Kiss of the Spider Woman, Novel, Play, and Film: Homosexuality and the Discourse of the Maternal in a Third World Prison Chapter 7 Moving to Thought: The Inspired Reflective Cinema of Fernando Pérez; Chapter 8 Román Chalbaud: The ""National"" Melodrama on an Air of Bolero; Chapter 9 The Persistence of Vision: Going to the Movies in Colombia; Chapter 10 Mexican Melodramas of Patriarchy: Specificity of a Transcultural Form; Chapter 11 Queering the Patriarchy in Hermosillo's Doña Herlinda y su hijo

Chapter 12 Will There Be Latin American Cinema in the Year 2000? Visual Culture in a Post-national Era Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8823-0

OCLC:

476094327