Critical essays on Colombian cinema and culture
Subtitle: Cinembargo Colombia
By: Juana Suárez
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230115170
Subjects: Motion pictures; History; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Work titles: Essays
Description: "Spanning Colombian film productions from the early 1900s through 2011, in particular films resulting from the 2003 Law on Filmmaking, this book highlights instances of continuity and rupture and discusses the possibilities of Colombian filmmaking in the transnational market. The wide selection of films are studied through the lens of cultural studies, giving rise to a discussion of how Colombian cinema has constructed a discourse of identity and otherness that participates extensively in the formulation of a national imaginary through its representation of Colombian culture or segments of the culture"--
Notes: Translation of: Cinembargo Colombia : ensayos críticos sobre cine y cultura. Cali : Universidad del Valle, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chaos, myths, and silences : early Colombian filmmaking; title: Constructing a cinematic discourse on La Violencia; title: Capturing the margin : cinema and liminality in Colombia; title: Gendered genres : women pioneers in Colombian filmmaking; title: Visual disjunctions : from the experimental to tropical gothic; title: Decentering the centro : film noir and the metamorphosis of Bogotá; title: Reframing violence : toward other aesthetic languages; title: Searching for images, negotiating transnational spaces : the reinvention of Colombian cinema.