Mediating Two Worlds: Cinematic Encounters in the Americas - Softcover

Mediating Two Worlds: Cinematic Encounters in the Americas

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is like new. Textual illustrations. This work provides a comprehensive analysis of the rich and complex development of Latin American cinema and television. It brings together specially commissioned essays from scholars in Latin America, North America and Europe to open up and explore the cultures of the Americas. Contents: "The Circular Look: The Incursion of North American Fictional Cinema 1911-1917 into the Mexican Revolution" by Margarita de Orellana; "The Magnificient Seven" by Edward Buscombe; "Patterns of the Primitive: Sergei Eisenstein's Qué Viva Mexico!" by Laura Podalsky; "Buñuel in Mexico" by Michael Wood; "Internal "Others": Hollywood narratives "about" Mexican-Americans" by Chon A. Noriega; "Are All Latins from Manhattan?: Hollywood, Ethnography and Cultural Colonialism" by Ana M. López; "High-Tech Primitivism: The Representation of Tribal Societies in Feature Films" by Jean Franco; ""All That Trouble Down There": Hollywood and Central America" by James Dunkerley; "Neo-Realism and New Latin American Cinema: Bicycle Thieves and Blood of the Condor" by John Hess; "Hyper-, Retro-, or Counter-Cinema : European Cinema and Third Cinema between Hollywood and Art Cinema" by Thomas Elsaesser; "Mexican Cinema: Of Myths and Demystifications" by Carlos Monsiváis; "Tears and Desire: Women and Melodrama in the "Old" Mexican Cinema" by Ana M. López; Modernity and Cultural Mixture: The Case of Buenos Aires" by Beatriz Sarlo; "Cross-Cultural Dialogisms: Race and Multiculturalism in Brazilian Cinema" by Robert Stam; "Eldorado as Hell: Cinema Novo and the Post Cinema Novo - Appropriations of the Imaginary of the Discovery" by Ismail Xavier; "In the Belly of the Ogre: Cinema and State in Latin America" by Randal Johnson; "Colombia: State Role in Film Production" by Paul Lenti; "Mexican Cinema Comes Alive" by Nissa Torrents; "Death Is Not True: Form and History in Cuban Film" by Timothy Barnard; "National Cinema after Globalization: Fernando Solana's "Sur" and the Exiled Nation" by Kathleen Newman; "Regarding Rape: Fictions of Origin and Film Spectatorship" by Julianne Burton-Carvajal. "Zoot Suit: The "Return to the Beginning" by Rosa Linda Fregoso; ""Transparent women": Gender and Nation in Cuban Cinema" by Marvin D'Lugo. xxi/306 pages. Artikel-Nr. ABE-1530417882210

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