Writing National Cinema traces the twenty-year history of the
Peruvian film journal Hablemos de cine alongside that of Peruvian
filmmaking and film culture. Similar to the influential French
journal Cahiers du cinema, Hablemos de cine began with a group of
young critics interested in claiming the director's use of
mise-en-scene as the exclusive method of film analysis rather than
thematic or star-oriented topics -- hence, the title of the
publication, derived from their battle cry at post-screening
discussions: "Let's talk about film." Their critical authority grew
with the rise of local filmmaking and the nationalist fervor of the
late 1960s and early 1970s. When government sponsorship spurred
feature filmmaking in the mid-1970s, their perspective eschewed the
politically militant readings that characterized most writing and
film from the rest of Latin America at the time. By the 1980s, the
critics at Hablemos de cine had helped to engender a commercial,
Hollywood-influenced cinematic vision--best exemplified by Peruvian
auteur Francisco Lombardi--and stimulated a unique, if isolating,
national identity through film. The first book-length study of
Peruvian film culture to appear in English, Middents's work offers
thoughtful consideration of the impact of criticism on the visual
stylings of a national cinema.
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