María Mercedes Vázquez Vázquez

The Question of Class in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

This book sheds light on the aesthetics and politics of class in contemporary filmmaking in Venezuela, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. Its comparative methodology and combination of close textual and media industrial analyses provides a much-needed update of figurations of class on the screen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9781498553025
• ISBN-10: 1498553028
• Artikelnr.: 53923999

Autorenporträt

By María Mercedes Vázquez Vázquez

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Class and Romance in
Socialism 2. Space Defining Class: Middle-class Cinemas: Post-Tenebras Lux
and Que horas ela volta? 3. Class and the State: State Institutions: Slum
Pacification and Prison Riots in Brazil 4. The Return of the People:
Wrestling with the State: "Up with Populism!" in Venezuela 5. The
Globalization of Class on Screen: Amat Escalante's "Engaged Visuality" 6.
Class and Race: Exploring New Class Figurations in Asian-themed Films
Produced in Latin America Conclusion References Index About the Author