Ana M. López : Essays.

Brings together Ana M. López's field-defining essays on Latin American film and media in one indispensable volume.

Dades bibliogràfiques
Autor principal: López, Ana M.
Altres autors: Podalsky, Laura, Tierney, Dolores
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2023.
Edició:1st ed.
Col·lecció:SUNY Series in Latin American Cinema Ser.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18253541
Taula de continguts:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: At the Interface and Beyond
  • A Short History
  • Part 1. Latin American Cinema/s: The Transnational Turn
  • Editors' Introduction
  • 1 A Cinema for the Continent (1994)
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • 2 National History, Transnational History (1998)
  • 3 Facing Up to Hollywood (2000)
  • How Hollywood Became an International Force: Economics, Politics, and Ideology
  • Economic Strategies and Political Alliances
  • Beyond Economics
  • The Effects of Hollywood's International Dominance: The Problems of National Cinemas
  • The Case of Mexico: A "National" Cinema in the Shadow of Hollywood
  • The Case of Vera Cruz: The Failure of Studio-Based Brazilian Production
  • Dependency Theory and Cultural Imperialism: Facing Up to Hollywood in the 1960s
  • To Be or Not to Be . . . Global
  • 4 Early Cinema and Modernity in Latin America (2000)
  • The Arrival
  • Peripheral Attractions
  • The Novelty of Objectivity
  • Attraction of Nationness
  • National Narratives
  • A Nation at War and Beyond
  • Peripheral Displacements
  • 5 Film and Radio Intermedialities in Early Latin American Sound Cinema (2017)
  • Radio Challenges to Latin American Film History
  • New Intermedial Chronologies
  • Echoes of the Radiophonic
  • Musicality and the Performative
  • Beyond Musicality and the "Broadcastings": The Radiophonic as Narrative and Stylistic Engine
  • Conclusions
  • 6 From Hollywood and Back: Dolores Del Rio, a (Trans)national Star (1998)
  • Images of a Star
  • How Hollywood Created a Star
  • What Price Glory? The First Hollywood Star Image
  • The Height and Fall
  • The Myth Is Reborn
  • Transnationality and Returns
  • Memory and Re-iconicity
  • 7 The São Paulo Connection: The Companhia Cinematográfica Vera Cruz and O Cangaceiro (1998)
  • The Foreigners
  • The "Foreign-Looking" Films.
  • O Cangaceiro
  • Hybrid Style: A National Space
  • Lima Barreto: A Pre-auteur
  • Conclusion: The Legacy
  • 8 Crossing Nations and Genres: Traveling Filmmakers (2000)
  • Part 2. Of Modes and Genres
  • Editors' Introduction
  • 9 Tears and Desire: Women and Melodrama in the "Old" Mexican Cinema (1994)
  • The Melodrama and the Latin American Cinema
  • The Melodrama, Women, and Mexico
  • The Home: Mothers, Families, and Their Others
  • Woman's Desire on the Margins of the Home
  • The Cabaret: Rumberas and Female Desire
  • 10 Our Welcomed Guests: Telenovelas in Latin America (1995)
  • What Is a Telenovela?
  • Telenovelas and Melodrama
  • Telenovelas and the National
  • Making Nation
  • Selling Nation
  • Mediating Nation
  • Inventing "Nation"
  • Conclusion
  • 11 Of Rhythms and Borders (1997)
  • We Got Rhythm?
  • The Movies Say We Got Rhythm?
  • Which Is My Rhythm?
  • To Have a Rhythm
  • 12 Mexico (2012)
  • The Transition and Early Sound Cinema in Mexico: Context and Debates
  • The Comedia Ranchera
  • After Rancho Grande
  • The Cabaretera
  • 13 Before Exploitation: Three Men of the Cinema in Mexico (2009)
  • The Context for Filmmaking in Mexico
  • Foreigners, Adventurers, and Entrepreneurs
  • Orol-Bohr-Peón: First Films
  • After Rancho Grande
  • 14 (Not) Looking for Origins: Postmodernism, Documentary, and America (1993)
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V
  • 15 Revolution and Dreams: The Cuban Documentary Today (1992)
  • 16 The Battle of Chile: Documentary, Political Process, and Representation (1990)
  • Popular Unity and the Practices and Languages of Cinematic Representation
  • El Equipo Tercer Año and Patricio Guzmán
  • The Critical Response
  • The Textual Operations of The Battle of Chile
  • 17 At the Limits of Documentary: Hypertextual Transformation and the New Latin American Cinema (1990)
  • The Development of the New Latin American Cinema.
  • Memories of Underdevelopment: History as the Present
  • The Jackal of Nahueltoro: A Criminal Wild Child
  • One Way or Another: Another Marginalism
  • At the Boundaries of Fiction and Documentary: Historical Reconstruction and the Ukamau Group
  • Conclusion
  • 18 A Poetics of the Trace (2014)
  • Santiago: Othering the Self and Exposing the Process
  • Jogo de Cena: A Manual for Emotion
  • Alamar: To the Sea
  • Conclusion
  • Part 3. Intersections: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
  • Editors' Introduction
  • 19 Not Only a Question of Color: Afro-Latino/a Images in Latin American Cinema Today (1992)
  • 20 African Roots: Images of Black People in Cuban Cinema (1988)
  • 21 Sergio Giral on Filmmaking in Cuba (1986-1987)
  • 22 Are All Latins from Manhattan? Hollywood, Ethnography, and Cultural Colonialism (1991)
  • The Good Neighbor Policy: Hollywood Zeroes In On Latin America
  • The Transition: From Indifference to "Difference" across the Bodies of Women
  • The Perfect "Good Neighbor": Fetishism, Self, and Others
  • "Are All Latins from Manhattan?"
  • 23 Greater Cuba (1996)
  • The First Generation
  • The Second Generation
  • The Third Generation
  • Postscript: The Special Period
  • 24 I (Also) Love Ricky: The Oft-Forgotten Cuban-in-the-Text (2012)
  • Part 4. Final Thoughts, Metacritical Reflections
  • 25 López on López: Liminal Words (2012)
  • "Siete Veces Ana": An Afterword
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index.