New Latin American Cinema: Theories, Practices, and Transcontinental Articulations Vol. 1

by Michael T. Martin

Book Overview

Volume One explores the formation of the New Latin American Cinema movement, its national and continental implications (including the diasporic/exilic experience) and transcontinental articulations through the writings of pioneer filmmakers and scholars.

Mapping the historical and cultural contexts of film practices in Latin America, this two-volume collection of programmatic statements, essays and interviews is devoted to the study...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814325858
• ISBN13: 9780814325858
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A well thought inquiry on the history of latin american cinema

The texts selected by the editor offer a historical perspective of the New Latin American Cinema. I was pleased to revisit some relevant manifestos of Glauber Rocha, Fernando Birri and Fernando Solanas. And the papers were carefully chosen, in order to convey a historical background as well as an aesthetic critique of the New Cinema. Unfortunately, the texts stop in the early nineties. Therefore, there are no contributions related to the more recent production, that has a distinctive industrial flavor, and its dialogs with the tradition. But it is overall a very well thought selection.