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Latin American Cinemas
Nayibe Bermudez-Barrios (Ed.)
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Description for Latin American Cinemas
Paperback. During the years, Latin American cinema has experienced an enormous upsurge, prompting film critics and scholars to hail the onset of a new era. This collection analyzes the films that reflect and examine contemporary lives in their diversity and singularity, through their focus on identity politics, sexuality, the body, the family, and community. Editor(s): Bermudez Barrios, Nayibe. Num Pages: 344 pages, 34 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KL; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 502.
During the past twenty years, Latin American cinema has experienced an enormous upsurge, prompting film critics and scholars to hail the onset of a new era. What this signals, more than thriving financial or production infrastructures, is a renovated cinematic vision connected more closely to everyday experience and social and cultural concerns. The films analyzed in this new collection reflect and examine contemporary lives in their diversity and singularity, through their focus on identity politics, sexuality, the body, the family, and/or community.
Drawing especially on Jean-Luc Nancy's notion of ""inoperative community"" and Enrique Dussel's critique of ""modernity"", the essays ... Read more
During the past twenty years, Latin American cinema has experienced an enormous upsurge, prompting film critics and scholars to hail the onset of a new era. What this signals, more than thriving financial or production infrastructures, is a renovated cinematic vision connected more closely to everyday experience and social and cultural concerns. The films analyzed in this new collection reflect and examine contemporary lives in their diversity and singularity, through their focus on identity politics, sexuality, the body, the family, and/or community.
Drawing especially on Jean-Luc Nancy's notion of ""inoperative community"" and Enrique Dussel's critique of ""modernity"", the essays ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Calgary Press Canada
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
502g
Place of Publication
Calgary, Canada
ISBN
9781552385142
SKU
V9781552385142
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About Nayibe Bermudez-Barrios (Ed.)
Nayibe Bermúdez-Barrios is an associate professor in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary, where she teaches Latin American film, literature, translation, and culture. She is the author of Sujetos Transnacionales: La Negociación en Film y Literatura. Elizabeth Montes Garcés is an associate professor in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University ... Read more
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