Visible Nations
Latin American Cinema and Video
Will be published approx. on 19. April 2000
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-8166-3347-0 (ISBN)
Description
Rewrites Latin American film from the perspective of nationhood.
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.
The contributors to Visible Nations consider different national film and video histories in Latin America since the silent period. From the perspectives of feminism, psychoanalysis, new historicism, and reception theory, among others, they consider the styles through which-and the ends toward which-the nation has been represented, desired, and contested in films, film industries, and alternative video work in Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba. The result is nothing less than a rewriting of Latin American film history.
Contributors: Patricia Aufderheide, American U; Charles RamIrez Berg, U of Texas at Austin; Gilberto Moises Blasini; Julianne Burton-Carvajal, U of California, Santa Cruz; Seth Fein, Georgia State U; Claire F. Fox, Stanford U; Brian Goldfarb, U of Rochester; Ilene S. Goldman; Monica Hulsbus; Ana M. LOpez, Tulane U; Kathleen Newman, U of Iowa; Laura Podalsky, Bowling Green State U; Harmony H. Wu.
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.
The contributors to Visible Nations consider different national film and video histories in Latin America since the silent period. From the perspectives of feminism, psychoanalysis, new historicism, and reception theory, among others, they consider the styles through which-and the ends toward which-the nation has been represented, desired, and contested in films, film industries, and alternative video work in Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba. The result is nothing less than a rewriting of Latin American film history.
Contributors: Patricia Aufderheide, American U; Charles RamIrez Berg, U of Texas at Austin; Gilberto Moises Blasini; Julianne Burton-Carvajal, U of California, Santa Cruz; Seth Fein, Georgia State U; Claire F. Fox, Stanford U; Brian Goldfarb, U of Rochester; Ilene S. Goldman; Monica Hulsbus; Ana M. LOpez, Tulane U; Kathleen Newman, U of Iowa; Laura Podalsky, Bowling Green State U; Harmony H. Wu.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 149 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-3347-0 (9780816633470)
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Person
Chon A. Noriega is associate professor of critical studies in the Department of Film and Television at UCLA. He is the author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema and the editor of Chicanos and Film and The Ethnic Eye, also published by the University of Minnesota Press.