The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350281752)

How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema? Comprising 15 essays and a critical introduction, The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema addresses this question by examining a series of intersections between insular spaces and filmmaking in Latin America. The volume brings together international scholars and filmmakers to consider a diverse corpus of films about islands, films that take place on islands, films produced in islands, and films that problematise islands.

The book explores a diverse range of films that extend from the Chilean documentaries of Patricio Guzm疣 to work on the Malvinas/Falkland Islands, and films by Argentine directors Gustavo Font疣 and Lucrecia Martel. Chapters focus on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the Mexican Islas Mar僘s, and the Panamanian Caribbean; on ecocritical, environmental and film historical aspects of Brazilian and Argentine river islands; and on Cuban, Guadeloupean, Haitian, and Puerto Rican contexts.

The Film Archipelago argues that the islands and archipelagos of Latin American cinema constitute a critically interesting, analytically complex, and historically suggestive angle to explore issues of marginality and peripherality, remoteness and isolation, and fragility and dependency. As a whole, the collection demonstrates to what extent the combined insular and archipelagic lens can re-frame and re-figure both longstanding and recent discussions on the spaces of Latin American cinema.

Author: Antonio Gez
ISBN-10: 1350281751
ISBN-13: 9781350281752
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 07/27/2023
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.74d