Deborah Shaw - Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Breaking into the Global Market

Sarah Barrow is senior lecturer of film and communication studies at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. She is working on a monograph of contemporary Peruvian cinema. Recent publications include: Strategies of Hybridity in Contemporary British-Asian Cinema in Morgan-Tamosunas, Rikki & Rings, Guido (eds.) (2003) European Cinema Inside Out: Images of the Self and Other in Postcolonial European Film (2003) and Images of Peru: A National Cinema in Crisis in Stephanie Dennison and Lisa Shaw (eds.) Modernity, Gender and Nationhood (2004).

Nuala Finnegan is the director of postgraduate research and director of the Centre for Mexican Studies at the University College Cork. She is the author of Monstrous Projections of Femininity in the Fiction of Mexican Writer Rosario Castellanos (2000) and has published a number of articles in the field of Mexican womens writing and Mexican film in prestigious Hispanic academic journals. She is currently in the final stages of completing her book Ambivalent Modernities: Women, Writing and Power in Mexico since 1980 .

David William Foster is chair of the department of languages and literatures and Regents Professor of Spanish, Humanities, and Womens Studies at Arizona State University. His research interests focus on urban culture in Latin America, with emphasis on issues of gender construction and sexual identity, as well as Jewish culture. He has written extensively on Argentine narrative and theater, and he has held Fulbright teaching appointments in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. He has published numerous works in these areas and his publications include Violence in Argentine Literature: Cultural Responses to Tyranny (1995); Cultural Diversity in Latin American Literature (1994), Contemporary Argentine Cinema (1992), Mexico City in Mexican Filmmaking (2002), and Queer Issues in Latin American Filmmaking (2003).

Miriam Haddu is a lecturer in Hispanic studies at Royal Holloway University London. She has been awarded an AHRB grant to complete her monograph, Contemporary Mexican Cinema: History, Space and Identity, and she has published a number of articles in the field of contemporary Mexican cinema.

Geoffrey Kantaris is senior lecturer in Latin American culture in the department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, and Director of the MPhil in European Literature and Culture. His current research is on contemporary urban cinema from Colombia, Argentina, and Mexico, and he has published several articles in this area. He is also the author of The Subversive Psyche (1996), on postdictatorship womens writing from Argentina and Uruguay.

Deborah Shaw is senior lecturer in film studies at Portsmouth University. She is the author of Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Ten Key Films (2003) and has published widely in the field of womens writing in Mexico and Latin American and Spanish Cinema.

Lisa Shaw is reader in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at the University of Liverpool. She has published widely in this field, and her publications include The Social History of the Brazilian Samba (1999), and she coauthored, with Stephanie Dennison, Popular Cinema in Brazil , 1930-2001 (2004). She has also coedited Latin American Cinema: Essays on Modernity, Gender and National Identity (2005).

Rob Stone is the author of Spanish Cinema (2002), Flamenco in the Works of Federico Garca Lorca and Carlos Saura (2004), Julio Medem (2005), and co-editor of The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film (2005). He is the course leader of film studies at the University of Wales, Swansea.

Else R. P. Vieira is Professor of Brazilian film and cultural studies at Queen Mary University of London. She has a particular interest in the rights of minorities and the politicization of the expression of the dispossessed and has published widely in this field. She has recently edited City of God in Several Voices: Brazilian Social Cinema as Action (2005). She is currently working on an AHRC-funded research project, Screening Exclusion: Brazilian and Argentine Documentary Film-Making.

Dr. Claire Williams is Lecturer in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at the University of Liverpool, where she has been teaching since 2001. Her doctoral research analyzed the figure of the encounter in the works of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, who has been the focus of subsequent projects, including the edited volume of essays Closer to the Wild Heart (2002). She has published articles on contemporary lusophone womens writing, especially the work of Maria Gabriela Llansol, Lilia Mompl, virtual orality, maternal genealogies, and literatura light. Her current research project addresses the changing representations of the Brazilian favela (shanty town) in literature, film, art, essay, and the media.

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Falicov, Tamara L. Argentinas blockbuster movies and the politics of culture under neoliberalism, 198998. Media, Culture and Society 2223 (2000): 32742.

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