Alberto Elena - The Cinema of Latin America

THE CINEMA OF LATIN AMERICA

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24 FRAMES is a major new series focusing on national and regional cinemas from around the world. Rather than offering a best of selection, the feature films and documentaries selected in each volume serve to highlight the specific elements of that territorys cinema, elucidating the historical and industrial context of production, the key genres and modes of representation, and foregrounding the work of the most important directors and their exemplary films. In taking an explicitly text-centred approach, the titles in this list offer 24 diverse entry-points into each national and regional cinema, and thus contribute to the appreciation of the rich traditions of global cinema.

Series Editors: Yoram Allon & Ian Haydn Smith

OTHER TITLES IN THE 24 FRAMES SERIES:

THE CINEMA OF THE LOW COUNTRIES edited by Ernest Mathijs

THE CINEMA OF ITALY edited by Giorgio Bertellini

THE CINEMA OF JAPAN & KOREA edited by Justin Bowyer

THE CINEMA OF CENTRAL EUROPE edited by Peter Hames

THE CINEMA OF SPAIN & PORTUGAL edited by Alberto Mira

THE CINEMA OF SCANDINAVIA edited by Tytti Soila

THE CINEMA OF BRITAIN & IRELAND edited by Brian McFarlane

THE CINEMA OF FRANCE edited by Phil Powrie

THE CINEMA OF CANADA edited by Jerry White

FORTHCOMING TITLES:

THE CINEMA OF THE BALKANS edited by Dina Iordanova

THE CINEMA OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND edited by Geoff Mayer and Keith Beattie

THE CINEMA OF RUSSIA & THE FORMER SOVIET UNION edited by Birgit Beumers

THE CINEMA OF NORTH AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST edited by Gnl Dnmez-Colin

INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD

DUDLEY ANDREW Yale University, USA

KEITH BEATTIE University of Queensland, Australia

GIORGIO BERTELLINI University of Michigan, USA

BIRGIT BEUMERS University of Bristol, UK

MICHAEL CHANAN University of the West of England, UK

MARINA DAZ LPEZ Instituto Cervantes, Spain

GNL DONMEZ-COLIN Independent film critic, France

RACHEL DWYER SOAS, University of London, UK

ALBERTO ELENA Universidad Autnoma de Madrid, Spain

PETER EVANS Queen Mary and Westfield College, UK

HECTOR FERNANDEZ LHOESTE Georgia State University, USA

CAROLIN OVERHOFF FERREIRA Universidade Catlica Portuguesa, Portugal

JOSEPH GARNCARZ University of Cologne, Germany

JULIAN GRAFFY SSEES, University College London, UK

LALITHA GOPALAN Georgetown University, USA

PETER HAMES Staffordshire University, UK

CARMEN HERRERO Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

DINA IORDANOVA University of St Andrews, UK

JACQUELINE MAINGARD University of Bristol, UK

ERNEST MATHIJS University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

GEOFF MAYER LaTrobe University, Australia

BRIAN McFARLANE Monash University, Australia

ALBERTO MIRA Oxford Brookes University, UK

DORIT NAAMAN Queens University, Canada

CATHERINE PORTUGES University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

PHIL POWRIE University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

LAURA RASCAROLI National University of Ireland, Cork

PAUL JULIAN SMITH Cambridge University, UK

TYTTI SOILA University of Stockholm, Sweden

MITSUYO WADA-MARCIANO Carleton University, Canada

JULIE AMIOT is a Professor at the Universit Lumire-Lyon II. A specialist in Spanish Studies and Cinema Studies, she is completing her doctoral dissertation on Mexican and Cuban melodrama. She has been a research associate at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisin in San Antonio de los Baos and at the Centro de Investigaciones y Enseanzas Cinematogrficas of the Universidad de Guadalajara.

JOS CARLOS AVELLAR is a film critic with numerous articles published in newspapers, journals and collective works (including Le cinma brsilien, Framing Latin America and Cinema Novo and Beyond). He is also the author of several books on Latin American cinemas, such as O cinema dilacerado (1987), O cho da palavra: cinema e literatura no Brasil (1992), A ponte clandestina: teorias de cinema na Amrica Latina (1996), Deus e o diabo na terra do sol: a linha reta e o melao de cana (1997) and Glauber Rocha (2002). He was the Cultural Manager of Embrafilme (199597) and Director of the distribution company Riofilme (19942000). He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Cinemais.

RICARDO BEDOYA has been working as a film critic and as an university professor since 1973. He was a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Hablemos de cine and has published his articles in many Peruvian newspapers and magazines. Among his publications are the books Cien aos de cine en el Per: una historia crtica (1992; revised edition, 1995), Entre fauces y colmillos: las pelculas de Francisco Lombardi (1997) and Un cine reencontrado: Diccionario ilustrado de las pelculas peruanas (1998).

VICENTE J. BENET teaches History of Film at the Universidad Jaume I in Castelln de la Plana. He is also Managing Editor of Archivos de la Filmoteca.

IVANA BENTES is a film researcher and critic in visual arts, currently an Associate Professor of Audiovisual Language, History and Theory at the School of Communication and associate researcher at PACC (Advanced Programme of Contemporary Culture) of the Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro. She is the author of the book Joaquim Pedro de Andrade: a revoluo intimista (1996) and the editor of Cartas ao mundo: Glauber Rocha (1997). She is also the co-editor of the journal Cinemais.

NANCY BERTHIER is a Professor at the Department of Spanish Studies at the Universit de Paris-IV (Sorbonne). A specialist in Hispanic cinemas, she is also the author of a number of books and articles about different aspects of contemporary Spanish and Cuban cinema, mainly related to the relationship between history and cinema, including Le Franquisme et son image: cinma et propagande (1998).

MARINA DAZ LPEZ holds a PhD in History of Film and currently works at the Film Department of the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid. She is the Managing Editor of Secuencias: Revista de Historia del Cine and has published a number of papers on Latin American and Spanish cinema, and co-edited Tierra en trance: el cine latinoamericano en cien pelculas (1999).

MARVIN DLUGO is author of two books on Spanish cinema The Films of Carlos Saura: The Practice of Seeing (1991) and Guide to the Cinema in Spain (1997). He has also authored more than a hundred articles and reviews on Spanish and Latin American film topics including essays on contemporary Cuban, Argentine and Mexican film-makers.

ALBERTO ELENA teaches History of Film at the Universidad Autnoma de Madrid and is the Editor of Secuencias: Revista de Historia del Cine. He has extensively published on cinemas from the South and his publications include