This book explores the institutional and aesthetic foundations of the New Latin American Cinema. Zuzana Pick maps out six areas of inquiryhistory, authorship, gender, popular cinema, ethnicity, and exileand 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.
This book explores the institutional and aesthetic foundations of the New Latin American Cinema. Zuzana Pick maps out six areas of inquiryhistory, authorship, gender, popular cinema, ethnicity, and exileand 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.

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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780292765498 |
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Publisher: | University of Texas Press |
Publication date: | 10/01/1993 |
Series: | Texas Film and Media Studies Series |
Pages: | 263 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d) |