Expanding Cinemas

Eduardo Ledesma is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes, 1900–2015, also from SUNY Press.

"Experimental collectives, understudied auteurs, film shorts, cell phones, and VR: this book is a must read for anyone interested in global cinema's past and future. Eduardo Ledesma's cinema-eye zooms in and out, from a transatlantic view to the single frame—cutting cinematic history, biography, industry, culture, and politics together. A sweeping history of radical intermediality and immersive viewing." — Benjamin Fraser, University of Arizona

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Border Crossings in Intermedial and Transnational (Luso-Hispanic) Film Studies1. Transatlantic Exchanges in 1960s Militant Cinemas: Helena Lumbreras's Debt to the Cinema of Fernando Solanas and Santiago Álvarez2. Brazilian Cinema Novo and the Iberian Escuela de Barcelona: Art Cinema under Authoritarianism3. Remediating Past Filmic Technologies: The Return of Super 8 and Video in the Era of Global Digital Cinema4. Cell Phone Cinema and Amateur Genre Film in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic5. Expanded and Immersive Cinema: VR, AR, and MR Film in Latin America, Latinx US, and SpainCoda: Future Trends in Experimental Cinema and Audiovisual Technology across the Luso-Hispanic AtlanticNotesWorks CitedIndex