The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema

Marvin D’Lugo is Research Professor at Clark University, USA. He has written extensively on Hispanic transnational cinema, focusing on "audio politics" in Latin American film. He is currently completing a book on the digital cinema revolution in Mexico. Ana M. López is Director of the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute at Tulane University, USA. Her research is focused on Latin American and Latino film and cultural studies. She is currently the editor of Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas. Laura Podalsky has authored The Politics of Affect and Emotion in the Contemporary Latin American Cinema (2011) and Specular City: Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space in Buenos Aires, 1955–1973 (2004). She teaches Latin American film and cultural studies at the Ohio State University, USA.

Introduction: Troubling Histories



Marvin D’Lugo, Ana M. López and Laura Podalsky



I. Historiographies



Chapter 1: National cinema



Juan Poblete



Chapter 2: Silent and early sound cinema in Latin America: local, national, and transnational perspectives



Rielle Navitski



Chapter 3: National cinemas (re)ignited: film and the state



Lisa Shaw, Luis Duno-Gottberg, Joanna Page, and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado



Chapter 4: Unpacking periodization



Laura Podalsky



Chapter 5: Off-screen culture



Maite Conde, Laura Isabel Serna, and María Fernanda Arias Osorio



Chapter 6: Space, politics and the crisis of hegemony in Latin American film



Geoffrey Kantaris



Chapter 7: Encounters with the centaur: forms of the film-essay in Latin America



María Luisa Ortega



Chapter 8: Realism, documentary, and the process genre in early New Latin American Cinema



Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky



II. Interrogating critical paradigms



Chapter 9: Cosmopolitan nationalisms: transnational aesthetic negotiations in early Latin American sound cinema



Adrián Pérez Melgosa



Chapter 10: Genre films then and now



Gerard Dapena



Chapter 11: New Latin American stardom



Dolores Tierney, Victoria Ruétalo, and Roberto Carlos Ortiz



Chapter 12: Radical ruptures in the cinema of Latin America around "1968"



Mariano Mestman



Chapter 13: Transnational genealogies of institutional film culture of Cuba, 1960s–70s



Masha Salazkina



Chapter 14: New frameworks: collaborative and indigenous media activism



Freya Schiwy, Amalia Córdova David Wood, and Horacio Legrás



Chapter 15: Productions of space/places of construction: landscape and architecture in contemporary Latin American film



Jens Andermann



Chapter 16: Enduring art cinema



Nilo Couret



III. Business practices



Chapter 17: Transnational networks of financing and distribution: international co-productions



Luisela Alvaray



Chapter 18: The interlocking dynamics of domestic and international film festivals: the case of Latin American and Caribbean cinema



Tamara L. Falicov



IV. Intermedialities



Chapter 19: Film and photography: an archeology



Andrea Cuarterolo



Chapter 20: Problematizing film and photography



Alejandro Kelly-Hopfenblatt and Silvana Flores



Chapter 21: Film and radio intermedialities in early Latin American sound cinema



Ana M. López



Chapter 22: Music in Latin American cinema: aural communities on- and off-screen



Marvin D’Lugo



Chapter 23: Film and television



Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen



Chapter 24: Latin American film in the digital age



Gonzalo Aguilar, Mariana Lacunza, and Niamh Thornton