The New Latin American Cinema: A Continental Project (Texas Film and Media Studies Series) - Softcover

Pick, Zuzana M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0292765495 ISBN 13: 9780292765498

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 1993

Synopsis

During the 1967 festival of Latin American Cinema in Viña del Mar, Chile, a group of filmmakers who wanted to use film as an instrument of social awareness and change formed the New Latin American Cinema. Nearly three decades later, the New Cinema has produced an impressive body of films, critical essays, and manifestos that uses social theory to inform filmmaking practices.

This book explores the institutional and aesthetic foundations of the New Latin American Cinema. Zuzana Pick maps out six areas of inquiry—history, authorship, gender, popular cinema, ethnicity, and exile—and explores them through detailed discussions of nearly twenty films and their makers, including Camila (María Luisa Bemberg), The Guns (Ruy Guerra), and Frida (Paul Leduc). These investigations document how the New Latin American Cinema has used film as a tool to change society, to transform national expressions, to support international differences, and to assert regional autonomy.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book explores the institutional and aesthetic foundations of the New Latin American Cinema. 'This work takes Latin American film scholarship to a new level of critical, conceptual, and methodological sophistication.

About the Author:

Zuzana Pick is Professor of Film Studies at the School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University, Ottawa.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0292765495
• ISBN 13: 9780292765498
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 263