Latin American Cinema
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Reaktion Books
Published:1st Oct '14
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This book provides a succinct and comprehensive history of Latin American cinema from its origins in 1896 to the award-winning cinema of the present day. It analyses landmark films – including El Mégano (1955), Black God, White Devil (1964), The Official Version (1984), Central Station (1998), Amores Perros (2000), City of God (2002), Babel (2006) and Gravity (2013) – while tracing the broad contours of and connections between major historical developments.
Stephen M. Hart guides us through the story of how Hollywood dominance succumbed to the emergence of the nuevo cine Latinoamericano and how this in turn led to the twenty-first century’s ‘New’ New Latin American Cinema. He provides a fresh analysis of Latin American cinema as seen through the prism of the major changes in film technology, looking closely at the films themselves and examining how their messages – through techniques and tricks of the trade – are expressed. We see how paradigm shifts such as the move to digital media at the close of the twentieth century led to new cinematographic techniques and visions, as well as how the decision by a group of Latin American directors to film in English led to the creation of a new globalized filmic idiom, enhancing the global visibility of Latin American cinema.
Providing original views on major films and featuring mini-biographies of the central film directors, this is a clear and concise guide to the history of Latin American cinema.
As Stephen M. Hart shows in this informative and approachable survey, Latin American cinema found its own style early on. Its characteristic gritty realism came to be dubbed imperfect cinema, in contract to the slicker, blander offerings from Hollywood. * TLS *
In just 215 pages, Hart manages to give a tightly argued, persuasive and comprehensive account of Latin American cinema from its origins in 1896 to the present day, while also offering fresh perspectives on landmark films, filmmakers and movements . . . the text goes beyond mere survey and succeeds in making original connections between major historical connections, theoretical developments and important cinematic moments . . . Academically rigorous, meticulously illustrated and very accessible, Latin American Cinema offers a fresh perspective on the history of the cinema of a vast and diverse region * Viewfinder *
Stephen Hart has been running a documentary film-making summer school with me at the International Film and TV School (Escuela International de Cine y Televisión) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, for the past seven years and this experience of how to film and narrate Latin American reality is at the heart of his new monograph on Latin American film. Based on many years of research, Latin American Cinema is essential reading and offers critical insight into the complexities and contradictions which underpin our cinematographic culture * Enrique Colina, director of Entre Ciclones (Cannes Film Festival, 2002) *
Latin American Cinema traces the trajectories of various national cinemas from their origins in the late nineteenth century to the present. Harts account offers an eminently readable and richly illustrated introduction to a very diverse body of films and directors. * Film Quarterly *
ISBN: 9781780233659
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240 pages