Contemporary Latin American Cinema

New Transnationalisms

Dolores Tierney

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Edinburgh University Press
18 March 2020

Film theory & criticism; Film & movie: styles & genres

Series: Traditions in World Cinema

In the late 1990s and early 2000s Latin American films like Amores perros, Y tu mam tambin and Cidade de Deus enjoyed an unprecedented level of critical and commercial success in the world market. Benefitting from external financial and/or creative input, these films were considered examples of transnational cinema. Through a textual analysis of six filmmakers (Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu, Alfonso Cuarn, Guillermo del Toro, Fernando Meirelles, Walter Salles and Juan Jos Campanella), this book examines these transnational films and the subsequent wave of commercially successful 'deterritorialised' films by the same directors. It argues that although films produced within the structures of the United States film industry may have been commercially successful, they are not necessarily apolitical or totally divorced from key notions of national or continental identity. Bringing a new perspective to the films of Latin America's transnational auteurs, this is a major contribution towards understanding how different genres function across different cultures.

By: Dolores Tierney
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781474431132
ISBN 10: 1474431135
Series: Traditions in World Cinema
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 18 March 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dolores Tierney is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. She has published widely on Latin American film and television including a monograph Emilio Fernández (2007), two co-edited anthologies, Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinema and Latin America (2009) and The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro (2014). She has also written articles for Screen, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, New Cinemas, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas and Film, Fashion and Consumption.