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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 Guzmán to work on the Malvinas/Falkland Islands, and films by Argentine directors Gustavo Fontán and Lucrecia Martel. Chapters focus on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the Mexican Islas Marías, 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.

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Author:   Antonio Gómez ,  Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781350281752

ISBN 10:   1350281751
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   27 July 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction - “Islands in Latin American cinema: Film(ing) Archipelagos” Antonio Gómez and Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián Part 1: Islands at the end of the world 1. “Deserted islands for the nation: Empty land- and seascapes in three Argentine films of the Malvinas/Falkland Islands” Jason A. Bartles 2. “Marooned testimony: Chilean islandscape and the politics of memory in Sebastián Silva's Magic Magic (2013)” William Benner 3. “Memory islands: Repeating traumas in Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia de la luz (2010) and El botón de nácar (2015)” Amanda Holmes 4. “Insular spaces: A documentary and an affective ethno-mapping of the Rapa Nui culture” Irene Depetris Chauvin Part 2: Liminal islands 5. “Social reformation and the edges of sovereignty: Fernando Soler's La hija del penal (1949) and Emilio Fernández's Islas Marías (1951)” Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado 6. “Exposed insularities: Islands, capitalism and waste in Jorge Furtado's Ilha das Flores (1989)” Axel Pérez Trujillo 7. “Islands in Lucrecia Martel's Nueva Argirópolis (2010): Eroding and fracturing the national map” Natalia D'Alessandro 8. “Gustavo Fontán's films: On faces, specters, fragments of matter” Laura M. Martins Part 3: Antillean relations on screen 9. “The duplicitous empire: Ambiguous representations of Puerto Ricans and Japanese-Americans in Herbert I. Leeds's Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939)” Naida García Crespo 10. “An archipelago of crossed gazes: Intersections of documentary media practices in Cuba and Puerto Rico” Juan Carlos Rodríguez 11. “‘Irreducible memories’ of Caribbeanness: Mariette Monpierre's Le Bonheur d'Elza (2011)” Sheila Petty 12. “Documenting lifestyle migration: Anayansi Prado's Paraíso for Sale (2011)” Carolyn Fornoff 13.“Raoul Peck's archipelagic cinema: Island contestations of the international order in Assistance mortelle (2013)” Jana Evans Braziel Part 4: Reimagining islandscapes 14. “Notes on an island film: A journey to Martín García” Edgardo Dieleke 15. “Letters from the islands: A visual essay” Antonio Traverso Index

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From Cuba to Rapa Nui/Easter Island, from 1930s Hollywood Mr. Moto murder-mysteries to contemporary Patricio Guzman documentaries, The Film Archipelago draws on the uniqueness of islands (their distinctive memories, their liminality, relationality, imaginary) to provide a timely perspective on our tumultuous world from the Global South. This standout book is a truly engaging, wonderfully varied, and deeply insightful contribution to Film Studies (as it turns increasingly away from the nation towards the wider world), which will also resonate strongly across Latin American and Island Studies. A captivating read! -- David Martin-Jones, University of Glasgow, UK Focusing on island spaces and territories from Martin Garcia to the Antilles, the essays collected here brilliantly investigate their cinematic representation, meanings and how their study further questions the critical paradigm of national cinemas. A major contribution to Latin American film studies and studies of space in film. -- Deborah Martin, University College London, UK This well-curated and insightfully organized volume invites us to reconceptualize Latin America and the Caribbean from an innovative, rigorous, and unexplored perspective: cinematic islandscapes. Essential reading for anyone seeking breadth and depth in Latin American and Caribbean film. -- Veronica Garibotto, The University of Kansas, USA

From Cuba to Rapa Nui/Easter Island, from 1930s Hollywood Mr. Moto murder-mysteries to contemporary Patricio Guzmán documentaries, The Film Archipelago draws on the uniqueness of islands (their distinctive memories, their liminality, relationality, imaginary) to provide a timely perspective on our tumultuous world from the Global South. This standout book is a truly engaging, wonderfully varied, and deeply insightful contribution to Film Studies (as it turns increasingly away from the nation towards the wider world), which will also resonate strongly across Latin American and Island Studies. A captivating read! -- David Martin-Jones, University of Glasgow, UK Focusing on island spaces and territories from Martín García to the Antilles, the essays collected here brilliantly investigate their cinematic representation, meanings and how their study further questions the critical paradigm of national cinemas. A major contribution to Latin American film studies and studies of space in film. -- Deborah Martin, University College London, UK This well-curated and insightfully organized volume invites us to reconceptualize Latin America and the Caribbean from an innovative, rigorous, and unexplored perspective: cinematic islandscapes. Essential reading for anyone seeking breadth and depth in Latin American and Caribbean film. -- Veronica Garibotto, The University of Kansas, USA

From Cuba to Rapa Nui/Easter Island, from 1930s Hollywood Mr. Moto murder-mysteries to contemporary Patricio Guzman documentaries, The Film Archipelago draws on the uniqueness of islands (their distinctive memories, their liminality, relationality, imaginary) to provide a timely perspective on our tumultuous world from the Global South. This standout book is a truly engaging, wonderfully varied, and deeply insightful contribution to Film Studies (as it turns increasingly away from the nation towards the wider world), which will also resonate strongly across Latin American and Island Studies. A captivating read! - David Martin-Jones, University of Glasgow, UK Focusing on island spaces and territories from Martin Garcia to the Antilles, the essays collected here brilliantly investigate their cinematic representation, meanings and how their study further questions the critical paradigm of national cinemas. A major contribution to Latin American film studies and studies of space in film. - Deborah Martin, University College London, UK This well-curated and insightfully organized volume invites us to reconceptualize Latin America and the Caribbean from an innovative, rigorous, and unexplored perspective: cinematic islandscapes. Essential reading for anyone seeking breadth and depth in Latin American and Caribbean film. - Veronica Garibotto, The University of Kansas, USA

Author Information

Antonio Gómez is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Film at Tulane University, USA. Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University, UK.

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