Visible Nations: Latin American Cinema and Video by Chon A. Noriega

By Chon A. Noriega

Within the present "global" second, the research of Latin American cinema has develop into insistently nationwide -- a phenomenon absolutely explored during this choice of essays via essentially the most attention-grabbing and leading edge students of media and Latin American tradition operating today.

The members to noticeable countries reflect on assorted nationwide movie and video histories in Latin the US because the silent interval. From the views of feminism, psychoanalysis, new historicism, and reception concept, between others, they think about the types in which -- and the ends towards which -- the country has been represented, wanted, and contested in motion pictures, movie industries, and replacement video paintings in Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba. the result's not anything under a rewriting of Latin American movie history.

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