Experimental Latin American cinema : history and aesthetics / / by Cynthia Tompkins.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 294 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: mise-en-scene, a seemingly international staging
- A neonoir skew to the action-image. A shimmering suture: Fabian 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 Sorin's El camino de San Diego
- Orphans' solidarity: Maria Victoria Menis's El cielito
- Drama. Sculpting time: Ines de Oliveira Cezar's Como pasan las horas
- The past engulfs the present: Josue Mendez's Dias de Santiago
- Experimental auteurism. Whether or not to end one's life: Carlos Reygadas's Japon
- 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 (2008)
- Cyclical scapegoating: Ines de Oliveira Cezar's Extranjera
- The irrevocable nature of curses: Ines de Oliveira Cezar's El recuento de Los Danos
- Splintered mirrors, echoes, and reverberations: Fernando Perez Valdes's Madrigal
- Experimental pseudo-documentary. Room with a view: Fernando Perez Valdes's Suite Habana
- Life is and is not: Paz Encina's Hamaca Paraguaya
- Conclusion: possible futures.