Latin American cinemas
Subtitle: local views and transnational connections
By: edited by Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios
Series: Latin American and Caribbean series -- 9
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Calgary, Alberta
Language: eng; fre; spa
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781552385142
Subjects: Motion pictures; Communities in motion pictures
Description: During 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 films analyzed in this new collection reflect and examine contemporary lives in their diversity and singularity, through their focus on identity politics, sexuality, the body, the family, and/or community. Drawing especially on Jean-Luc Nancyʹs notion of inoperative community' and Enrique Dussel's critique of modernity, ' the essays here weave together a progression that stresses the breakdown of the nation-state in Latin America and the search for new communal settings. The nation-state's breakdown is linked to modernity's homogenizing project and its concomitant hierarchies that, in seeking to impose order and progress, have alienated those who do not conform to conventional norms. In response, Nancy offers the concept of inoperative community', which questions current forms of operative' communities that do not allow for individuation, and implies instead the recognition of plurality and singularity and replacement of hierarchies by horizontal and transversal connections. -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes filmographies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes some text in French and Spanish.