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Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film

María Soledad Paz-MacKay and Argelia González Hurtado - Contributions by Ana Cornide; Andy Leonel Barrientos-Gómez; Argelia González Hurtado; Bridget V. Franco; Amanda Holmes; Maybel Mesa Morales; Marcos Moscoso Garay; Tatiana Navallo; Sandra V. Navarro; María Soledad Paz-MacKay; Lauren Peña; Omar Rodríguez; Pablo Salinas and Zaira Zarza

Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film offers a series of perspectives, produced from a diverse array of aesthetic and theoretical approaches, that build on previous studies about cinematic landscape and space while addressing it from a regional perspective. This book explores how contemporary Latin American filmmakers have included, created, or transformed different types of landscapes in their works. The chapters highlight the centrality of landscape as a meaningful space in film, composed in addition to the image, sound, and movement. The core of the edited collection revolves around films where landscape emerges as a crucial element to transmit the urgency of issues affecting diverse Latin American societies. The representation of emerging social actors, such as Indigenous groups, Afro-Latin Americans, LGBTQIA+ communities, migrants, environmentalists, and women, offers a localized view of sociocultural, political, and environmental challenges from marginalized and dissenting voices.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 234 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-66693-425-0 • Hardback • March 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
Subjects: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies, Performing Arts / Film / Regional & National, Social Science / Popular Culture

María Soledad Paz-Mackay is associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages at St. Francis Xavier University.

Argelia González Hurtado is associate professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Section I: Urban and Rural Landscapes

Chapter 1:Beyond Utopias: Urban Landscapes in Contemporary Venezuelan Cinema

Omar Rodríguez

Chapter 2: De vientres y aguas: Women and Landscape in El niño pez and El verano de los peces voladores

Sandra V. Navarro

Chapter 3: Enclaves of Entrapment: Capitalism’s Waste in Maquilapolis and 7 Prisoneiros

Andy Leonel Barrientos-Gómez

Section II: Colonial, Postcolonial, and Historical Landscapes

Chapter 4: Unraveling the Colonial Landscape in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama.

Amanda Holmes

Chapter 5: Old Habits in the New Lima: Perverse Spaces in Octubre (2010) and Rosa Chumbe (2016).

Pablo Salinas

Chapter 6:Exploring Bolivian Cartography in Juan Carlos Valdivia's Films: Landscapes, Crises, and Transformations

María Soledad Paz-Mackay and Argelia González Hurtado

Section III: Violence and Gendered Landscapes

Chapter 7:The Disappearing Landscape: Narratives of Displacement in Two Venezuelan Ecofeminist Documentaries

Zaira Zarza

Chapter 8: Desert as a Memoryscape in El guardián de la memoria

Ana Cornide and Tatiana Navallo

Chapter 9.Close-ups of Political Violence: Faces as Affective Landscape in Magallanes (2015)

Marcos Moscoso Garay

Chapter 10:The Landscape of Confinement: Abject Exclusion in Fernando Pérez’s La pared de las palabras (2014)

Lauren Peña

Section IV: Director’s Point of Views about Cinematic Landscape

Chapter 11: In Conversation with Filmmaker Francisco Huichaqueo

Bridget V. Franco

Chapter 12: Landscapes of Haptic Visuality and Affects: A Conversation with Cuban Filmmaker Patricia Ramos

Maybel Mesa Morales

"This is an excellent and timely contribution to the dynamic field of Latin American cinema studies. The researchers highlight how landscapes in contemporary cinema from the region dynamically shape the films that we see. No longer considered settings or backdrops, these authors show how these landscapes are just as important to the works as are the plots and character development. The researchers bring new perspectives to the cinematography of space in current cinema of the region."


— Michelle Leigh Farrell, Fairfield University


"This illuminating volume makes a convincing case for the relevance of landscape in cinema as an important aesthetic, narrative, metaphorical, metonymical, and sensorial device, while at the same time offering a fresh perspective on vital questions of identity in contemporary Latin American film. Each mobilizes the distinctive symbolism of the region to draw attention to ongoing issues of discrimination, power, and culture, with a most welcome focus on sociocultural, political, and environmental challenges from marginalized and dissenting voices. This fine collection makes an important contribution to the study of Latin American cinema and culture."


— Sarah Barrow, University of East Anglia, UK


Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film

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  • Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film offers a series of perspectives, produced from a diverse array of aesthetic and theoretical approaches, that build on previous studies about cinematic landscape and space while addressing it from a regional perspective. This book explores how contemporary Latin American filmmakers have included, created, or transformed different types of landscapes in their works. The chapters highlight the centrality of landscape as a meaningful space in film, composed in addition to the image, sound, and movement. The core of the edited collection revolves around films where landscape emerges as a crucial element to transmit the urgency of issues affecting diverse Latin American societies. The representation of emerging social actors, such as Indigenous groups, Afro-Latin Americans, LGBTQIA+ communities, migrants, environmentalists, and women, offers a localized view of sociocultural, political, and environmental challenges from marginalized and dissenting voices.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 234 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
    978-1-66693-425-0 • Hardback • March 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
    Subjects: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies, Performing Arts / Film / Regional & National, Social Science / Popular Culture
Author
Author
  • María Soledad Paz-Mackay is associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages at St. Francis Xavier University.

    Argelia González Hurtado is associate professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Section I: Urban and Rural Landscapes

    Chapter 1:Beyond Utopias: Urban Landscapes in Contemporary Venezuelan Cinema

    Omar Rodríguez

    Chapter 2: De vientres y aguas: Women and Landscape in El niño pez and El verano de los peces voladores

    Sandra V. Navarro

    Chapter 3: Enclaves of Entrapment: Capitalism’s Waste in Maquilapolis and 7 Prisoneiros

    Andy Leonel Barrientos-Gómez

    Section II: Colonial, Postcolonial, and Historical Landscapes

    Chapter 4: Unraveling the Colonial Landscape in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama.

    Amanda Holmes

    Chapter 5: Old Habits in the New Lima: Perverse Spaces in Octubre (2010) and Rosa Chumbe (2016).

    Pablo Salinas

    Chapter 6:Exploring Bolivian Cartography in Juan Carlos Valdivia's Films: Landscapes, Crises, and Transformations

    María Soledad Paz-Mackay and Argelia González Hurtado

    Section III: Violence and Gendered Landscapes

    Chapter 7:The Disappearing Landscape: Narratives of Displacement in Two Venezuelan Ecofeminist Documentaries

    Zaira Zarza

    Chapter 8: Desert as a Memoryscape in El guardián de la memoria

    Ana Cornide and Tatiana Navallo

    Chapter 9.Close-ups of Political Violence: Faces as Affective Landscape in Magallanes (2015)

    Marcos Moscoso Garay

    Chapter 10:The Landscape of Confinement: Abject Exclusion in Fernando Pérez’s La pared de las palabras (2014)

    Lauren Peña

    Section IV: Director’s Point of Views about Cinematic Landscape

    Chapter 11: In Conversation with Filmmaker Francisco Huichaqueo

    Bridget V. Franco

    Chapter 12: Landscapes of Haptic Visuality and Affects: A Conversation with Cuban Filmmaker Patricia Ramos

    Maybel Mesa Morales

Reviews
Reviews
  • "This is an excellent and timely contribution to the dynamic field of Latin American cinema studies. The researchers highlight how landscapes in contemporary cinema from the region dynamically shape the films that we see. No longer considered settings or backdrops, these authors show how these landscapes are just as important to the works as are the plots and character development. The researchers bring new perspectives to the cinematography of space in current cinema of the region."


    — Michelle Leigh Farrell, Fairfield University


    "This illuminating volume makes a convincing case for the relevance of landscape in cinema as an important aesthetic, narrative, metaphorical, metonymical, and sensorial device, while at the same time offering a fresh perspective on vital questions of identity in contemporary Latin American film. Each mobilizes the distinctive symbolism of the region to draw attention to ongoing issues of discrimination, power, and culture, with a most welcome focus on sociocultural, political, and environmental challenges from marginalized and dissenting voices. This fine collection makes an important contribution to the study of Latin American cinema and culture."


    — Sarah Barrow, University of East Anglia, UK


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