Introduction: A New Cinema for a New Century / Mauricio Espinoza and Jared List -- Part I. Post-war and Memory. -- "How Many Deaths?": Official Silence, Subversive Memory, and Death's Performativity in Abner Benaim's documentary film Invasión (2014) / Jared List -- Illuminating from the Darkness: Transitional Justice, Testimonies and Archive in Salvadoran Postwar Documentary (2011-2018) / Lilia García Torres -- Memories and Critical History: Documenting the Past in Nicaragua and El Salvador / Juan Pablo Gómez Lacayo -- Palabras mágicas and Heredera del viento: Two Diagnoses of the Sandinista Revolution's Decay / Tomas Arce Mairena -- Part II. Migration, Movement, and Place. -- Borders, Body and Violence: The Representation of the Central American Migrant in Contemporary Cinema / María Lourdes Cortes -- Migrant Credence in Marcela Zamora's María en tierra de nadie / Esteban E. Loustaunau -- Longing for Missing Memories: Journeys of "Return" and Postmemory in Children of the Diaspora, by Jennifer A. Círcamo (2013) / Patricia Arroyo Calderón -- Part III. Re/presenting the Nation, Counter Cinema, and Popular Culture -- Panamanian Cinema in the 21st Century: Panama Canal Stories / Carolina Sanabria -- Costa Rican Exceptionalism: Nostalgia, Costumbrismo, and Extreme Patriotism in Maikol Yordan de viaje perdido (Miguel Gómez, 2014) / Liz Harvey-Kattou -- The Games We Play: Forging and Contesting National Identities in Central American Sports Films / Mauricio Espinoza -- Toward a Central American Counter Cinema: The Films of Tatiana Huezo and Julio Hernandez Cordón / Júlia Gonzalez de Canales Carcereny -- Part IV. The Oppositional Lens: Minorities and Gender Issues. -- Tangible Afro-Indigenous Heritage: Land and Sea in Garifuna in Peril / Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar -- "No que muy machito pues" -- Alternate Masculinities in 21st Century Guatemalan Cinema / Arno Jacob Argueta -- Film and Gender in Central America: Five Voices / Interviews by Mauricio Espinoza and Jared List, compiled and edited by Daniela Granja Núñez -- Central American Filmography: 2000-2021 / Compiled by MaríŁa Lourdes Cortés, Mauricio Espinoza, and Jared List.
Summary:
"This volume explores the main trends, genres, and themes that define the emerging filmmaking industry in Central America, providing a needed overview of one of the least explored cinemas in the world"-- Provided by publisher. "How an overlooked film industry became a cinematic force The first book in English dedicated to the study of Central American film, this volume explores the main trends, genres, and themes that define this emerging industry. The seven nations of the region have seen an unprecedented growth in film production during the twenty-first century with the creation of over 200 feature-length films compared with just one in the 1990s. This volume provides a needed overview of one of the least explored cinemas in the world. In these essays, various scholars of film and cultural studies from around the world provide insights into the continuities and discontinuities between twentieth- and twenty-first-century cinematic production on the isthmus. They discuss how political, social, and environmental factors, along with new production modes and aesthetics, have led to a corpus of films that delve into issues of the past and present such as postwar memory, failed revolutions, trauma, migration, popular culture, minority populations, and gender disparities. From Salvadoran documentaries to Costa Rican comedies and Panamanian sports films, the movies analyzed here demonstrate the region's flourishing film industry and the diversity of approaches found within it. The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century pays homage to an overlooked cultural phenomenon and shows the importance of regional cinema studies. A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by He̹ctor Ferna̹ndez L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodri̹guez Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Reframing media, technology, and culture in Latin/o America
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