Film Archipelago (eBook)

Islands in Latin American Cinema

Antonio G mez, Francisco-J. Hern ndez Adri n (Herausgeber)

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2021
360 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-350-15798-9 (ISBN)

Infos

How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema? Comprising 15 essays and a critical introduction, The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema addresses this question by examining a series of intersections between insular spaces and filmmaking in Latin America. The volume brings together international scholars and filmmakers to consider a diverse corpus of films about islands, films that take place on islands, films produced in islands, and films that problematise islands. The book explores a diverse range of films that extend from the Chilean documentaries of Patricio Guzm n to work on the Malvinas/Falkland Islands, and films by Argentine directors Gustavo Font n and Lucrecia Martel. Chapters focus on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the Mexican Islas Mar as, and the Panamanian Caribbean; on ecocritical, environmental and film historical aspects of Brazilian and Argentine river islands; and on Cuban, Guadeloupean, Haitian, and Puerto Rican contexts.The Film Archipelago argues that the islands and archipelagos of Latin American cinema constitute a critically interesting, analytically complex, and historically suggestive angle to explore issues of marginality and peripherality, remoteness and isolation, and fragility and dependency. As a whole, the collection demonstrates to what extent the combined insular and archipelagic lens can re-frame and re-figure both longstanding and recent discussions on the spaces of Latin American cinema.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-350-15798-8 / 1350157988
• ISBN-13: 978-1-350-15798-9 / 9781350157989