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Internet resource(s)
- AFI Latin American Film Festival
For over 20 years, the AFI Latin American Film Festival showcases the best filmmaking from Latin America and, with the inclusion of films from Spain and Portugal, celebrates Ibero-American cultural connections. - Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano«Queridos hermanos de Nuestra América: en La Habana, capital de Cuba, iniciamos hoy, 3 de diciembre del año 1979, el primer Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano».
Con estas palabras de inauguración pronunciadas por Alfredo Guevara, gestor y presidente del Festival, comenzaba a hacerse realidad un sueño del cine latinoamericano. ... - LANIC - Latin American Network Information CenterThis page is no longer being updated. However, it still remains a good source of information and resources.
- Latin American Film Industry Paradox from The Hollywood ReporterFilm production is booming and local filmmakers are thriving on the festival circuit, but homegrown projects remain no match for Hollywood at the multiplex.
- We need to talk about Latin American cinema - a TED TalkHow Latin America became an international epicenter of cinema. It’s been almost 20 years since the emergence of the ‘New Argentinean cinema,’ which fostered the arrival of a new generation of filmmakers that would drastically change local modes of production and narratives. ...
Keeping up with the journal literature
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Introduction to Latin American cinema
Latin America’s first moving-image display took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 8 July 1896, followed in the same year by screenings in the capitals of most other Latin American countries. Early audiences were essentially urban, and the first film images of Latin America, made between 1896 (Mexico) and 1911 (Peru), were usually by Europeans recording royal and state ceremonies, wonders of nature, and other actualities. However, most countries saw no significant local film production for several decades. This was partly to do with the dominance of US films: as early as 1914, Hollywood had targeted Latin America as a key market, establishing an ascendancy further strengthened with the coming of sound, when studios were set up in Hollywood, New York, and France devoted to making Spanish-language talkies for export. Nonetheless, Latin American countries with internal markets large enough to compete—Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico—developed industries of their own, specializing in films featuring local variants of popular film genres, including a distinctively Latin American variant of the exploitation film (see latsploitation), and films which, like the Brazilian chanchada, feature music and dance. ...
Kuhn, A., & Westwell, G. (2020). Latin America, film in. In A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 18 May. 2021
Searching the online catalog
This page is a general guide to the cinema of Latin America. If the individual country you want does not have its own tab, use this page as your starting point. You can use the subject headings below to find resources in the online catalog. Some call number ranges are also included. You can do a subject search for specific countries in South or Central America and the Caribbean Region using the format, "motion pictures [insert name of country]." Please note: these are not the only call numbers, but they have the majority of items. These searches will also lead you to movie titles.
Jill Baron, the Spanish Language librarian, has put together resources under the Latin America LibGuide.
- motion pictures latin americaCall number range PN 1993.5 .L3 on Baker Stacks Level 4.
Introductory reading(s)
Contemporary Latin American cinema: breaking into the global market by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .L3 C66 2007ISBN: 9780742539150This engaging book explores some of the most significant films to emerge from Latin America since 2000, an extraordinary period of international recognition for the region's cinema.
El estado de las cosas: cine latinoamericano en el nuevo milenio by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .L3 E88 2015ISBN: 9783954873975
The film edge: contemporary filmmaking in Latin America by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .L3 H33213 2010ISBN: 9789871354719What does it mean to make films in Latin America? The landscape today is as complex as it is dynamic. New directors and new projects are constantly emerging; film festivals appear one after another in what could only be described as an explosion of cinema in the region.
Latin American cinema: a comparative history by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780520288638This book charts a comparative history of Latin America's national cinemas through ten chapters that cover every major cinematic period in the region: silent cinema, studio cinema, neorealism and art cinema, the New Latin American Cinema, and contemporary cinema. Schroeder Rodríguez weaves close readings of approximately fifty paradigmatic films into a lucid narrative history that is rigorous in its scholarship and framed by a compelling theorization of the multiple discourses of modernity. ...
Latin American cinemas: local views and transnational connections by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .L3 L282 2011ISBN: 9781552385142During the past twenty years, Latin American cinema has experienced an enormous upsurge, prompting film critics and scholars to hail the onset of a new era. What this signals, more than thriving financial or production infrastructures, is a renovated cinematic vision connected more closely to everyday experience and social and cultural concerns.
The Routledge companion to Latin American cinema by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781138855267The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema is the most comprehensive survey of Latin American cinemas available in a single volume. While highlighting state-of-the-field research, essays also offer readers a cohesive overview of multiple facets of film-making in the region, from the production system and aesthetic tendencies, to the nature of circulation and reception. The volume recognizes the recent "new cinemas" in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico, and, at the same time, provides a much deeper understanding of the contemporary moment by commenting on the aesthetic trends and industrial structures in earlier periods. ...
Selected book title(s)
Drugs, thugs, and divas: telenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.8 .S4 B47 2008ISBN: 9780292717121Soap opera speaks a universal language, presenting characters and plots that resonate far beyond the culture that creates them. Latin American soap operas--telenovelas--have found enthusiastic audiences throughout the Americas and Europe, as well as in Egypt, Russia, and China, while Mexican narco-dramas have become highly popular among Latinos in the United States.
Latin American cinema: essays on modernity, gender and national identity by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .L3 L28 2005ISBN: 9780786420049Renewed interest in Latin American film industries has opened a host of paths of scholarly exploration. Productions from different countries reflect particular social attitudes, political climates and self-conceptions, and must be considered separately and as a whole. The search for national identity is a key component of Latin American films in a time of decreasing cultural diversity and pressures to westernize. Globalization and falling government support have fueled cross-border collaborations, calling into question the idea of a movie's "nationality," and leaving some nations' film industries on the brink of collapse. Whether thriving or barely surviving, struggling to remain distinct or embracing globalization on its own terms, addressing the government or society, Latin American cinema remains vibrant, offering a wealth of material to scholars of all stripes. ...
Latin American melodrama: passion, pathos, and entertainment by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .L3 L345 2009ISBN: 9780252076558Like their Hollywood counterparts, Latin American film and TV melodramas have always been popular and highly profitable. The first of its kind, this anthology engages in a serious study of the aesthetics and cultural implications of Latin American melodramas.
Libre acceso: Latin American literature and film through disability studies by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781438459677Analyzes the diverse roles and pervasive presence of disability in Latin American literature and film.- Miradas al margen: cine y subalternidad en América Latina y el Caribe byCall Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .L3 M57 2008ISBN: 9789806506138
New transnationalisms in contemporary Latin American cinemas by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .L3 T536 2018ISBN: 9780748645732In the late 1990s and early 2000s Latin American films like Amores perros, Y tu mama tambien and Cidade de Deus enjoyed an unprecedented level of critical and commercial success in the world market. Benefitting from external financial and/or creative input, these films were considered examples of transnational cinema. Through a textual analysis of six filmmakers (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, Fernando Meirelles, Walter Salles and Juan Jose Campanella), this book examines these transnational films and the subsequent wave of commercially successful "deterritorialised" films by the same directors. It argues that although films produced within the structures of the United States film industry may have been commercially successful, they are not necessarily apolitical or totally divorced from key notions of national or continental identity. ...
Telling migrant stories: Latin American diaspora in documentary film by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781683400233In the media, migrants are often portrayed as criminals; they are frequently dehumanized, marginalized, and unable to share their experiences. Telling Migrant Stories explores how contemporary documentary film gives voice to Latin American immigrants whose stories would not otherwise be heard. ...
Other library resource(s)
Digitalia film library. Latin American cinemaCall Number: Streaming video serviceDigitalia Film Library includes productions from France, Argentina, Russia, Brazil, Cuba, Spain, other Latin American countries and classic American (U.S.) titles.
Latin American cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by ISBN: 9780199791286How might the term “Latin American Cinema” be defined? The term is not exempt from controversy any more than the concept of Latin America itself, which was first imagined by the French Michel Chevalier in the mid-19th century and later coined by the Colombian José María Torres Caicedo. The question of whether a cinema that is specifically Latin American exists and, furthermore, whether it is productive to conduct research from this broad perspective often appears in prologues to Latin American film studies. ...
Finding journal articles
Articles and other writings about Latin American films can be found in many publications. Our collection includes several journals which look exclusively at Latin American film. You can use Film & Television Literature Index to find articles or use the search box at the top of the page.
- Cinémas d'Amérique latine byCall Number: Electronic journalCinémas d’Amérique latine offre des articles critiques sur les cinémas latino-américains, fait le bilan de la production actuelle par pays et s’interroge sur les moyens de développer la diffusion, la distribution et les coproductions Europe-Amérique latine. ...
Studies in Spanish & Latin American cinemas by Call Number: Electronic journalThis peer-reviewed journal explores the cinemas of Spain and Spanish-speaking South, Central and North America, including the Caribbean and Brazil.
HAPI online by Call Number: Electronic resourceHAPI is a source for worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States, with coverage from 1970 to the present.
Film & television literature index by Call Number: Electronic resourceUse this index to find articles about Latin American film.
Screen studies collection by Call Number: Electronic resourceA comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed filmographies. This collection includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the British Film Institute.
The web of science citation databases by Call Number: Electronic resourceThe online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
Selected movie titles
Ceremonias de barro: la historia de un pueblo by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #15059Candelario Gerónimo, a 79-year old Diaguita Indian, lives in the Tucumán Province in northwestern Argentina, and reflects on his life, the soon-to-be lost traditions of the Quilmes people, and the fight to reclaim their land.
La mansión de Araucaima by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #12250The equilibrium of the already unusual community of individuals living at the isolated mansion of Araucaima is forever disturbed when they are joined by a young woman.
Mujer conejo = rabbit woman by Call Number: Streaming videoAn unconventional story boldly told, interweaving Manga-style animation with live action. When Ana, a state employee, discovers that the police in Argentina are controlled by the Chinese mafia, she fights to reveal the truth. With her life at risk, she flees the country, ending up in an abandoned field teeming with gentically-altered carnivorous rabbits. What she finds there may just take down the mafia. That is, if she can make it out alive ...
Terra em transe by Call Number: Jones DVD #4427Paulo Martins is a young poet and journalist who is persuaded by his lover Sara to become involved in the politics of his country. He fights against two corrupt politicians, a populist governor and a conservative president, both who were at one time his friends.
