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This book charts a comparative history of Latin America's national cinemas through ten chapters that cover every major cinematic period in the region: silent cinema, studio cinema, neorealism and art cinema, the New Latin American Cinema, and contemporary cinema. Schroeder Rodríguez weaves close readings of approximately fifty paradigmatic films into a lucid narrative history that is rigorous in its scholarship and framed by a compelling theorization of the multiple discourses of modernity. The result is an essential guide that promises to transform our understanding of the region's cultural history in the last hundred years by highlighting how key players such as the church and the state have affected cinema's unique ability to help shape public discourse and construct modern identities in a region marked by ongoing struggles for social justice and liberation.

Motion pictures --- Motion picture industry --- Film industry (Motion pictures) --- Moving-picture industry --- History. --- Cultural industries --- Film --- Latin America --- History --- Motion picture industry - Latin America - History. --- Lateinamerika --- Iberoamerika --- Lateinamerikaner --- american cinema. --- art cinema. --- comparative cinema. --- contemporary cinema. --- contemporary latin american cinema. --- film and cinema. --- film studies. --- film theory. --- latin american cinema. --- latin american cinematography. --- latin american motion pictures. --- latin american silent cinema. --- latin american studio cinema. --- latinx cinema. --- neorealism latin american cinema. --- new latin american cinema. --- silent films. --- studio films. --- the church and latin american cinema. --- Lateinamerika.

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This book is dedicated to the study of Paraguayan film, particularly small cinemas and movies which represent a socio-politically charged perspective that has until now been overlooked in Latin American Studies. Romero demonstrates that these films are critical to understanding the dynamics of politics and cultural identity in Latin America as a whole. An in-depth exploration of the Latin American post-dictatorial transition of power Romero investigates this contemporary crisis through the dynamics of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Each chapter takes a film or films as its jumping off point, then zooms out to encompass elements of the national political, economic, social, and historical context. Romero analyzes some of the most pressing social issues in Paraguay while reflecting on the power of cultural discourse through film.

Culture --- Ethnology --- Motion pictures, American. --- Democracy. --- Latin America --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Latin American Cinema. --- Latin American Culture. --- Latin American Politics. --- Study and teaching. --- Latin America. --- Politics and government. --- Democracy --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Ethnology-Latin America. --- Latin America-Politics and gover. --- Latin American Cinema and TV. --- American motion pictures --- Moving-pictures, American --- Foreign films --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- Latin America—Politics and government.

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early Latin American visual culture --- Latin American cinema --- Latin american precinema --- Silent films --- Cinematography --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism --- History --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Photography --- Chronophotography --- Moving pictures, Silent --- Silent motion pictures --- Animated pictures --- Silent films. --- Motion pictures. --- Cinematography. --- Latin America. --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America --- early latin american visual culture --- latin american cinema --- latin american precinema

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This book maps the aesthetic experience of late socialism through Cuban film and media practice. It shows how economic and material scarcity as well as political uncertainty is expressed aesthetically in films from the period following the collapse of the Soviet Union, a characteristic described as imperfect aesthetics. The films examined in the book draw attention to the unique temporal experience of late socialism, a period marked both by rapid change and frustrating stasis, nostalgia for Cuba’s past and anxiousness about its future. Aesthetic modes such as melodrama and irony, and stylistic elements such as direct address and the long take, communicate the temporal experience of late socialism in Cuba, where new global traffic and a globalizing economy co-exist with iconic socialist features of the Cuban revolution. Film aesthetics constitute an important public dimension within this context, serving as a site of political and cultural critique amidst political uncertainty. In examining large-scale international co-productions as well as regional film collectives and amateur media making, the book traces the aesthetic continuities between contemporary film practices and those of the immediate post-revolutionary period, showing how the Cuban revolution continues to be an important touchstone for contemporary Cuban filmmakers in the face of new and imminent change. .

Culture --- Ethnology --- Communication. --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures, American. --- Latin America --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Latin American Cinema. --- Latin American Culture. --- Latin American Politics. --- Film History. --- Media and Communication. --- Study and teaching. --- Latin America. --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Motion picture industry --- Film industry (Motion pictures) --- Moving-picture industry --- Cultural industries --- Ethnology-Latin America. --- Latin America-Politics and gover. --- Motion pictures-History. --- Latin American Cinema and TV. --- American motion pictures --- Moving-pictures, American --- Foreign films --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- Latin America—Politics and government. --- Motion pictures—History. --- Cuba. --- Guba --- Kkuba --- Küba --- Kuuba --- Kyūba --- Republic of Cuba --- República de Cuba

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In Mock Classicism Nilo Couret presents an alternate history of Latin American cinema that traces the popularity and cultural significance of film comedies as responses to modernization and the forerunners to a more explicitly political New Latin American Cinema of the 1960s. By examining the linguistic play of comedians such as Cantinflas, Oscarito and Grande Otelo, Niní Marshall, and Luis Sandrini, the author demonstrates aspects of Latin American comedy that operate via embodiment on one hand and spatiotemporal emplacement on the other. Taken together, these parallel examples of comedic practice demonstrate how Latin American film comedies produce a ";critically proximate"; spectator who is capable of perceiving and organizing space and time differently. Combining close readings of films, archival research, film theory, and Latin American history, Mock Classicism rethinks classicism as a discourse that mediates and renders the world and argues that Latin American cinema became classical in distinct ways from Hollywood.

Motion pictures --- Motion picture actors and actresses --- Comedy films --- Comedy videos --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Film actors --- Film stars --- Motion picture stars --- Movie stars --- Moving-picture actors and actresses --- Stars, Movie --- Actors --- Actresses --- Production and direction --- History --- History and criticism --- 1960s. --- alternate history. --- archival research. --- cantinflas oscarito. --- comedians. --- comedic practice. --- cultural significance. --- embodiment. --- film comedies. --- film theory. --- films. --- grande otelo. --- latin america. --- latin american cinema. --- latin american history. --- linguistic play. --- luis sandrini. --- modernization. --- new latin american cinema. --- nini marshall. --- popularity. --- spatiotemporal emplacement.