{"product_id":"chilean-cinema-in-the-twenty-first-century-world-paperback","title":"Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarl Fischer\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eVania Barraza\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eExplores the global dimension and local identity of Chile's vibrant contemporary cinema.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on films from Chile since 2000 and bringing together scholars from South and North America, \u003ci\u003eChilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World\u003c\/i\u003e is the first English-language book since the 1970s to explore this small, yet significant, Latin American cinema. The volume questions the concept of \"national cinemas\" by examining how Chilean film dialogues with trends in genre-based, political, and art-house cinema around the world, while remaining true to local identities. Contributors place current Chilean cinema in a historical context and expand the debate concerning the artistic representation of recent political and economic transformations in contemporary Chile. \u003ci\u003eChilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World\u003c\/i\u003e opens up points of comparison between Chile and the ways in which other national cinemas are negotiating their place on the world stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is divided into five parts. \"Mapping Theories of Chilean Cinema in the World\" examines Chilean filmmakers at international film festivals, and political and affective shifts in the contemporary Chilean documentary. \"On the Margins of Hollywood: Chilean Genre Flicks\" explores on the emergence of Chilean horror cinema and the performance of martial arts in Chilean films. \"Other Texts and Other Lands: Intermediality and Adaptation Beyond Chile(an Cinema)\" covers the intermedial transfer from Chilean literature to transnational film and from music video to film. \"Migrations of Gender and Genre\" contrasts films depicting transgender people in Chile and beyond. \"Politicized Intimacies, Transnational Affects: Debating (Post)memory and History\" analyzes representations of Chile's traumatic past in contemporary documentary and approaches mourning as a politicized act in postdictatorship cultural production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntended for scholars, students, and researchers of film and Latin American studies, \u003ci\u003eChilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World \u003c\/i\u003eevaluates an active and emergent film movement that has yet to receive sufficient attention in global cinema studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVania Barraza is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Memphis. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003e(In)subordinadas: raza, clase y filiación en la narrativa de mujeres latinoamericanas\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEl cine en Chile (2005-2015): Políticas y poéticas del nuevo siglo\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarl Fischer is associate professor of Latin American studies and Spanish at Fordham University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eQueering the Chilean Way: Cultures of Exceptionalism and Sexual Dissidence, 1965-2015\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 86\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 20, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750875267360,"sku":"9780814346822","price":59.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/23ecde143cf0a333029cb1db2677651d.webp?v=1779959750","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/chilean-cinema-in-the-twenty-first-century-world-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}