Companion to Latin American Cinema

Maria M. Delgado is Professor and Director of Research at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, and has served as a programme advisor to the London Film Festival since 1997. Recent publications include Spanish Cinema 1973–2010 (2013) and A History of Theatre in Spain (2012). She is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound and a range of BBC Radio programmes. Stephen M. Hart is Professor of Latin American Film, Literature and Culture at University College London. He is also general editor of Tamesis and founder-director of the Centre of César Vallejo Studies. His publications include Gabriel García Márquez (2016), Latin American Cinema (2015), and A Companion to Latin American Literature (2007). Randal Johnson is Distinguished Professor of Brazilian Literature and Cinema at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Manoel de Oliveira (2007), Antônio das Mortes (1998), The Film Industry in Brazil: Culture and the State (1987), and Cinema Novo x 5: Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Film (1984).

• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xivIntroduction 1Maria M. Delgado, Stephen M. Hart, and Randal JohnsonPart I The Film Industry: Funding, Production, Distribution, Exhibition 191 Television and the Transformation of the Star System in Brazil 21Randal Johnson2 Stardom in Spanish America 36Leah Kemp3 Audiovisual Sector Incentives and Public Policy in Selected Latin American Countries 54Steve Solot4 Film, the Audiovisual, and New Technology in Latin America: Public Policy in the Context of Digital Convergence 71Roque Gonzalez Translated by Franny Brogan and Randal Johnson5 Film Funding Opportunities for Latin American Filmmakers: A Case for Further North–South Collaboration in Training and Film Festival Initiatives 85Tamara L. Falicov6 The Film Festival Circuit: Identity Transactions in a Translational Economy 99Mar Diestro‐DopidoPart II Continental Currents: Documenting and Representing Identities 1157 Latin American Documentary: A Political Trajectory 117Michael Chanan8 The Politics of Landscape 133Jens Andermann9 From Postmodernity to Post‐Identity: Latin American Film after the Great Divide 150Geoffrey Kantaris10 Indigenous Filmmaking in Latin America 167Charlotte Gleghorn11 What Is the Child for Latin American Cinema? Spectatorship, Mobility, and Authenticity in Pedro Gonzalez Rubio’s Alamar (2009) 187Deborah Martin12 Affect, Nostalgia, and Modernization: Popular Music in Twenty‐First‐Century Mexican and Chilean Cinema 201Duncan WheelerPart III National Cinemas: Initiatives, Movements, and Challenges 21713 Memories of Cuban Cinema, 1959–2015 219Joel del Rio and Enrique Colina Translated by Stephen M. Hart14 Politics, Memory and Fiction(s) in Contemporary Argentine Cinema: The Kirchnerist Years 238Maria M. Delgado and Cecilia Sosa15 Neoliberalism and the Politics of Affect and Self‐Authorship in Contemporary Chilean Cinema 269Joanna Page16 Popular Cinema/Quality Television: A New Paradigm for the Mexican Mediascape 285Paul Julian Smith17 Alumbramento, Friendship, and Failure: New Filmmaking in Brazil in the Twenty‐First Century 294Denilson Lopes Translated by Stephen M. Hart18 The Reinvention of Colombian Cinema 307Juana Suarez19 Rendering the Invisible Visible: Reflections on the Costa Rican Film Industry in the Twenty‐First Century 325Liz HarveyPart IV New Configurations: Travel, Technology, Television 34120 The Horizontal Spread of a Vertical Malady: Cosmopolitanism and History in Pernambuco’s Recent Cinematic Sensation 343Lucia Nagib21 Artists’ Cinema in Brazil 357Andre Parente Translated by Randal Johnson22 Brazilian Film and Television in Times of Intermedia Diversification 375Esther Hamburger23 A Mexican in Hollywood or Hollywood in Mexico? Globalized Culture and Alfonso Cuaron’s Films 392German Martinez Martinez24 Latin American Cinema’s Trojan Horse 408Stephen M. Hart and Owen WilliamsPart V The Interview Corner: Pragmatics and Praxis 43125 “Finding the right balance”: An Interview with Martin Rejtman 433Maria M. Delgado26 “Escaping from an ordinary world into a more epic one”: An Interview with Alvaro Brechner 446Maria M. Delgado27 “The capacity to create mystery”: An Interview with Pablo Larrain 459Maria M. Delgado28 “A story might be similar from different places, but the language of representation is not”: An Interview with Jeannette Paillan 473Charlotte Gleghorn29 “Meeting points”: An Interview with Mariana Rondon and Marite Ugas 487Maria M. Delgado30 “Film is about connecting”: An Interview with Diego Luna 499Maria M. Delgado31 “The bridge between the others and us”: An Interview with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 509Damon WiseIndex 519