Experimental Latin American cinema
Subtitle: history and aesthetics
By: by Cynthia Margarita Tompkins
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780292744158
Subjects: History and criticism; Experimental films
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: mise-en-scene, a seemingly international staging; title: A neonoir skew to the action-image. A shimmering suture: Fabián Bielinsky's epileptic El aura; title: Slippery criminal pleasures: intermediality and voyeurism in Jorge Furtado's O homem que copiava; title: Endless quest: chasing sex, lies, and money at the gates of hell in Heitor Dhalia's O cheiro do ralo; title: Road movies. The paradoxical effect of the documentary: Walter Salles's Central do Brasil; title: Twin piques: the double discourse of Carlos Sorín's El camino de San Diego; title: Orphans' solidarity: María Victoria Menis's El cielito; title: Drama. Sculpting time: Inês de Oliveira Cézar's Como pasan las horas; title: The past engulfs the present: Josue Mendez's Días de Santiago; title: Experimental auteurism. Whether or not to end one's life: Carlos Reygadas's Japón; title: Crime and self-inflicted punishment: Carlos Reygadas's Batalla en El cielo; title: Experimental auteurism and intertextuality. The miracle of female bonding in patriarchal society: Carlos Reygadas's Stellet licht (2008); title: Cyclical scapegoating: Inês de Oliveira Cézar's Extranjera; title: The irrevocable nature of curses: Inês de Oliveira Cézar's El recuento de Los Daños; title: Splintered mirrors, echoes, and reverberations: Fernando Pérez Valdés's Madrigal; title: Experimental pseudo-documentary. Room with a view: Fernando Pérez Valdés's Suite Habana; title: Life is and is not: Paz Encina's Hamaca Paraguaya; title: Conclusion: possible futures.