Full Description
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.
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
