by Tompkins, Cynthia
TitleExperimental Latin American cinema : history and aesthetics
Item typeBook
Author(s)Tompkins, Cynthia
EditionFirst paperback edition
ISBN
  • 0292762097
  • 9780292762091
LanguageEnglish
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Notes
  • Includes a filmography with the bibliography.
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index.
  • Introduction: mise-en-scène, a seemingly international staging -- A neonoir skew to the action-image. A shimmering suture: Fabián Bielinsky's epileptic El aura -- Slippery criminal pleasures: intermediality and voyeurism in Jorge Furtado's O homem que copiava -- Endless quest: chasing sex, lies, and money at the gates of hell in Heitor Dhalia's O cheiro do ralo -- Road movies. The paradoxical effect of the documentary: Walter Salles's Central do Brasil -- Twin piques: the double discourse of Carlos Sorín's El camino de San Diego -- Orphans' solidarity: María Victoria Menis's El cielito -- Drama. Sculpting time: Inés de Oliveira Cézar's Como pasan las horas -- The past engulfs the present: Josué Méndez's Días de Santiago -- Experimental auteurism. Whether or not to end one's life: Carlos Reygadas's Japón -- Crime and self- inflicted punishment: Carlos Reygadas's Batalla en el cielo -- Experimental auteurism and intertextuality. The miracle of female bonding in patriarchal society: Carlos Reygadas's Stellet licht -- Cyclical scapegoating: Inés de Oliveira Cézar's Extranjera -- The irrevocable nature of curses: Inés de Oliveira Cézar's El recuento de los daños -- Splintered mirrors, echoes, and reverberations: Fernando Pérez Valdés's Madrigal -- Experimental pseudo- documentary. Room with a view: Fernando Pérez Valdés's Suite Habana -- Life is and is not: Paz Encina's Hamaca paraguaya -- Conclusion: possible futures.
  • Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.
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