Framing Latin American Cinema

Ed. Ann Marie Stock
Focuses on the critical constructions of Latin American Cinema, and the challenges those practices that reduce Latin American films to illustrations of U.S. and European film and cultural studies theories. It also provides insights into film industries in Cuba, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, and Venezuela.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Ambrosio Fornet

Introduction: Through Other Worlds and Other Times: Critical Praxis and Latin American Cinema

Ann Marie Stock

1. High-Rise Apartments, Arcades, Cars, and Hoteles de citas: Urban Discourse and the Reconstruction of the Public/Private Divide in 1960s Buenos Aires

   Laura Podalsky

2. Backwards Blindness: Brazilian Cinema of the 1980s

   José Carlos Avellar

3. Recent Colombian Cinema: Public Histories and Private Stories

   Ilene S. Goldman

4. When the Mountains Tremble: Images of Ethnicity in a Transcultural Text

   Teresa Longo

5. How Real is Reel? Fernando de Fuentes’s Revolutionary Trilogy

   John Mraz

6. Kiss of the Spider Woman, Novel, Play, and Film: Homosexuality and the Discourse of the Maternal in a Third World Prison

   Patricia Santoro

7. Moving to Thought: The Inspired Reflective Cinema of Fernando Pérez

   Beat Borter

8. Román Chalbaud: The “National” Melodrama on an Air of Bolero

   Paulo Antonio Paranaguá

9. The Persistence of a Vision: Going to the Movies in Colombia

   Gilberto Gómez Ocampo

10. Mexican Melodramas of Patriarchy: Specificity of a Transcultural Form

    Julianne Burton-Carvajal

11. Queering the Patriarchy in Hermosillo’s Doña Herlinda y su hijo

    David William Foster

12. Will There Be Latin American Cinema in the Year 2000? Visual Culture in a Postnational Era

    Néstor García Canclini