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An expanded translation of the groundbreaking book on Colombian cinema, this work addresses not only the inadequate distribution of criticism on Colombian cinema outside Latin America, but also employs an interdisciplinary focus that combines historical, anthropological, and sociological approaches to the country's culture.

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<p> Suarez undertakes to examine with critical insight the most important texts of Colombian filmmaking. Her work is geared toward those films that have become part of a Latin American and international canon, those texts that have attracted significant critical attention and that are most likely to be used in courses on Latin American film or in courses in which Latin American film is part of a larger thematic or modular focus. Focusing on key texts, Suarez examines them in interpretive depth, with full attention to theoretical issues they raise in filmmaking and in cultural studies. Her coverage is a judicious balance between historical considerations and actual textual analyses, between a discussion of questions relevant to the film industry in Colombia and the cultural contexts of specific texts. She argues that there are major dimensions of the evolution of filmmaking in Colombia that have been routinely ignored as part of the historical record in Colombia, and that this in turn has encouraged or abetted insufficient attention by international scholars: one example she gives in this regard concerns the record of silent filmmaking in Colombia. In sum, this is a groundbreaking work on a major Latin American national production. - David William Foster, Regents' Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University

Dense but fascinating reading,this a book for specialists in film studies, Latin American studies, and cultural studies. Suarez writes with solid theoretical grounding regarding both feature films and documentaries by Colombian cineasts. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students and researchers. - CHOICE

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JUANA SUÁREZ is an Adjunct Faculty Member at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Cinema Studies, and a candidate to the Master of Arts in Moving Image and Archive Preservation (2013). She is the author of Sitios de Contienda: Producción Cultural Colombiana y el Discurso de la Violencia (2010) and Cinembargo Colombia: Ensayos Críticos sobre Cine y Cultura (2009).   LAURA CHESAK is Associate Professor of Romance Languages (Spanish) and Interim Associate Dean at The Graduate School of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.

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