The Precarious in the Cinemas of the Americas (eBook)

Constanza Burucúa is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, where she teaches different courses on film. She is author of Confronting the 'Dirty War' in Argentine Cinema, 1983–1993. Her research focuses on Latin American cinemas, history, gender, and identity. She is committed to the production of documentary films. Carolina Sitnisky is Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Southern California, USA. Her research focuses on connections between cultural politics and historical readings in twentieth and twenty-first century Latin American cinema and literature. She is co-editor with Gabriela Copertari of the volume El estado de las cosas: cine latinoamericano del nuevo mileno.

1. Introduction: Forms of the Precarious in the Cinemas of the Americas (Constanza Burucúa and Carolina Sitnisky)

Part I. Self-Reflexive Considerations on the Precarious

2. Beyond Documentary?: Archives, Absences, and Rethinking Mexican “Nonfiction” Film, c.1935-1955 (David M. J. Wood)

3. Precarious Images: Media and Historicity in Pablo Larraín’s No (James Cisneros)

4. The Future’s Reverse: Dystopia and Precarity in Adirley Queirós’s Cinema (Cláudia Mesquita)

5. The Never-Ending Movie: Precariousness and Self-Reflexivity in Contemporary Argentine Cinema (Beatriz Urraca)

Part II. On Cultural Policies, Legislations and Funding

6. Narrating Precariousness in Cuba beyond Havana and the ICAIC: The Case of Televisión Serrana’s Ariagna Fajardo and ¿A dónde vamos? (Michelle Leigh Farrell)

7. Precariousness in Contemporary Venezuelan Filmmaking: Pelo malo and Brecha en el silencio (María Mercedes Vázquez Vázquez)

8. The Politics of Precariousness and Resilience in Contemporary Colombian Films (María Helena Rueda)

9. Portfolio Careers and a New Common Cause: the Conditions for Screen Workers in Peru (Sarah Barrow)

10. Rethinking Contemporary Ecuadorian Cinema (Carolina Sitnisky)

11. Bolivian Indigenous Film and the Aesthetics of the Precarious (Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal)

12. Indigenous Canadian Cinemas: Negotiating the Precarious (Christopher Gittings)

Part III. Transnational Contexts

13. Showcasing the Precarious: Paraguayan Images in the Film Festival Circuit (Constanza Burucúa)

14. Pantelion: Neoliberalism and Media in the Age of Precarization (Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado)