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Experimental Latin American cinema : history and aesthetics /

This exploration of experimental Latin American film applies Deleuzian theories of cinema in a comparative approach to examine multiple genres and works from the most important national cinematic traditions.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tompkins, Cynthia, 1958-
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Mise-en-scene, a seemingly international staging
  • A neonoir skew to the action-image. A shimmering suture : Fabián Bielinsky's epileptic El aura ; Slippery criminal pleasures : intermediality and voyeurism in Jorge Furtado's O homem que copiava ; Endless quest : chasing sex, lies, and money at the gates of hell in Heitor Dhalia's O cheiro do ralo
  • Road movies. The paradoxical effect of the documentary : Walter Salles's Central do Brasil ; Twin piques : the double discourse of Carlos Sorín's El camino de San Diego ; Orphans' solidarity : María Victoria Menis's El cielito
  • Drama. Sculpting time : Inês de Oliveira Cézar's Como pasan las horas ; The past engulfs the present : Josue Mendez's Días de Santiago
  • Experimental auteurism. Whether or not to end one's life : Carlos Reygadas's Japón ; Crime and self-inflicted punishment : Carlos Reygadas's Batalla en El cielo
  • Experimental auteurism and intertextuality. The miracle of female bonding in patriarchal society : Carlos Reygadas's Stellet licht ; Cyclical scapegoating : Inês de Oliveira Cézar's Extranjera ; The irrevocable nature of curses : Inês de Oliveira Cézar's El recuento de Los daños ; Splintered mirrors, echoes, and reverberations : Fernando Pérez Valdés's Madrigal
  • Experimental pseudo-documentary. Room with a view : Fernando Pérez Valdés's Suite Habana ; Life is and is not : Paz Encina's Hamaca Paraguaya
  • Conclusion : possible futures.