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What is the child for Latin American cinema? This book aims to
answer that question, tracing the common tendencies of the
representation of the child in the cinema of Latin American
countries, and demonstrating the place of the child in the
movements, genres and styles that have defined that cinema. Deborah
Martin combines theoretical readings of the child in cinema and
culture, with discussions of the place of the child in specific
national, regional and political contexts, to develop in-depth
analyses and establish regional comparisons and trends. She pays
particular attention to the narrative and stylistic techniques at
play in the creation of the child's perspective, and to ways in
which the presence of the child precipitates experiments with film
aesthetics. Bringing together fresh readings of well-known films
with attention to a range of little-studied works, The Child in
Contemporary Latin American Cinema examines films from the recent
and contemporary period, focussing on topics such as the death of
the child in 'street child' films, the role of the child in
post-dictatorship filmmaking and the use of child characters to
challenge gender and sexual ideologies. The book also aims to place
those analyses in a historical context, tracing links with
important precursors, and paying attention to the legacy of the
child's figuring in the mid-century movements of melodrama and the
New Latin American Cinema.
The cinema of Lucrecia Martel provides a comprehensive analysis of
the work of the acclaimed Argentine director, whose elusive and
elliptical feature films have garnered worldwide recognition since
her 2001 debut La cienaga. This volume considers existing critical
work on Martel's oeuvre, and proposes new ways of understanding it,
in particular through desire, the use of the child's perspective,
and through the senses and perception. Martin also offers an
analysis of the politics of Martel's films, showing how they can be
understood as sites of transformation and possibility, develops
queer approaches to Martel's films, and shows how they offer new
forms of cinematic pleasure. The cinema of Lucrecia Martel combines
traditional plot and gaze analysis with an understanding of film as
a material object, to explore the films' sensory experiments and
their challenges to dominant cinematic forms. -- .
Latin American women filmmakers have achieved unprecedented
international prominence in recent years. Notably political in
their approach, figures such as Lucrecia Martel, Claudia Llosa and
Bertha Navarro have created innovative and often challenging films,
enjoying global acclaim from critics and festival audiences alike.
They undeniably mark a 'moment' for Latin American cinema.Bringing
together distinguished scholars in the field - and prefaced by B.
Ruby Rich - this is a much-needed account and analysis of the rise
of female-led film in Latin America. Chapters detail the
collaboration that characterises Latin American women's filmmaking
- in many ways distinct from the largely 'Third Cinema' auteurism
from the region - as well as the transnational production contexts,
unique aesthetics and socio-political landscape of the key industry
figures. Through close attention to the particular features of
national film cultures, from women's documentary filmmaking in
Chile to comedic critique in Brazil, and from US Latina screen
culture to the burgeoning popularity of Peruvian film, this timely
study demonstrates the remarkable possibilities for film in the
region. This book will allow scholars and students of Latin
American cinema and culture, as well as industry professionals, a
deeper understanding of the emergence and impact of the filmmakers
and their work, which has particular relevance for contemporary
debates on feminism.
This book explores crucial moments in the emergence of feminine
culture in Colombia through the work of ground-breaking artist
Debora Arango, best-selling novelist Laura Restrepo, and three
generations of documentary filmmakers. Women artists, writers and
filmmakers in Colombia have consistently foregrounded the
relationship between gender and the often violent processes which
have marked the country's history over the past century. This book
explores crucial moments in the emergence of feminine culture in
Colombia hitherto unexamined in English-language criticism through
an examination of the work of ground-breaking artist Debora Arango,
best-selling novelist Laura Restrepo, andthree generations of
documentary filmmakers. Deborah Martin shows how Colombian women
writers and artists have critiqued discourses that territorialize
femininity and provided alternative models that free women from
their passive or allegorical representational status as border
guards, re-thinking feminine subjectivity and taking it to new
symbolic territories. The book's approach---comparing art,
literature and film---reveals a resistive trajectoryin dialogue
with dominant tendencies in Colombian feminist theory, itself the
product of an intellectual sphere conditioned by the need to think
about political violence. DEBORAH MARTIN is a Lecturer in Latin
American Cultural Studies at University College London.
The cinema of Lucrecia Martel provides a comprehensive analysis of
the work of the acclaimed Argentine director, whose elusive and
elliptical feature films have garnered worldwide recognition since
her 2001 debut La cienaga. This volume considers existing critical
work on Martel's oeuvre, and proposes new ways of understanding it,
in particular through desire, the use of the child's perspective,
and through the senses and perception. Martin also offers an
analysis of the politics of Martel's films, showing how they can be
understood as sites of transformation and possibility, develops
queer approaches to Martel's films, and shows how they offer new
forms of cinematic pleasure. The cinema of Lucrecia Martel combines
traditional plot and gaze analysis with an understanding of film as
a material object, to explore the films' sensory experiments and
their challenges to dominant cinematic forms. -- .
Latin American women filmmakers have achieved unprecedented
international prominence in recent years. Notably political in
their approach, figures such as Lucrecia Martel, Claudia Llosa and
Bertha Navarro have created innovative and often challenging films,
enjoying global acclaim from critics and festival audiences alike.
They undeniably mark a 'moment' for Latin American cinema.Bringing
together distinguished scholars in the field - and prefaced by B.
Ruby Rich - this is a much-needed account and analysis of the rise
of female-led film in Latin America. Chapters detail the
collaboration that characterises Latin American women's filmmaking
- in many ways distinct from the largely 'Third Cinema' auteurism
from the region - as well as the transnational production contexts,
unique aesthetics and socio-political landscape of the key industry
figures. Through close attention to the particular features of
national film cultures, from women's documentary filmmaking in
Chile to comedic critique in Brazil, and from US Latina screen
culture to the burgeoning popularity of Peruvian film, this timely
study demonstrates the remarkable possibilities for film in the
region. This book will allow scholars and students of Latin
American cinema and culture, as well as industry professionals, a
deeper understanding of the emergence and impact of the filmmakers
and their work, which has particular relevance for contemporary
debates on feminism.
Ada Mae Tyndall loves to argue. She doesn't have the best attitude
about life and might be just a tad bitter. She's never been married
and has convinced herself that she hasn't missed a thing. She
surrounds herself with her flowers, her baking and the big,
Victorian home she inherited from her parents. When her friend and
attorney informs her a deceased town resident requested in his will
that she have custody of his granddaughter, she asks herself, what
would I do with a child? While seeking the advice of her attorney,
she realizes she has feelings for him she never allowed herself to
explore, and doesn't understand why God would bring her all this
way through life alone, and then change His mind. With the support
of her closest friends, she gives the girl a home. A custody battle
with the child's biological mother threatens Ada Mae who wonders if
opening her heart was right after all. Amidst tension, highly
strung emotions and real Southern mayhem, Ada Mae fights for the
child's future and discovers that God has destined the second half
of her life to be the best
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