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New Trends in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema
As part of a raft of neoliberal economic reforms in the early 1990s, Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello and Argentine president Carlos Menem eliminated long-standing state financial support for cinema. National film production, distribution, and exhibition were deeply affected by the absence of the entire structure and legislation on which they had relied for decades. By the mid-1990s, however, new laws were passed reestablishing subsidies and credit lines—and allowing for a rebirth of national cinema in both countries.
This comprehensive and accessible volume surveys Brazilian and Argentine cinematic production from its subsequent dramatic rebirth to the present. It addresses not only the commercially successful films but also the effects of globalization and cultural policies on public incentives for filmmaking. An indispensable resource for students of film and cultural studies, New Trends in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema is moreover an exciting glimpse into a momentous period in recent cinematic history.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abstract
I. Introduction
II. Funding
Contemporary Argentine Cinema during Neoliberalism
Carolina Rocha
The Fall and Rise of Brazilian Cinema
Cacilda Rêgo
Globo Filmes, Sony, and Franchise Film-making: Transnational Industry in the Brazilian Pós-retomada
Courtney Brannon Donoghue
Close Strangers: The Role of Regional Cultural Policies in Brazilian and Argentine New Cinemas
Marina Moguillansky
New Visions of Patagonia: Video Collectives and the Creation of a Regional Video Movement in Argentina’s South
Tamara L. Falicov
III. Class, Citizens and Spatial Relations
Leaving and Letting Go as Possible Ways of Living Together in Jorge Gaggero’s Cama adentro/Live-in Maid
Ana Ros
Electoral Normality, Social Abnormality: The Nueve reinas/Nine Queens Paradigm and Reformulated Argentine Cinema, 1989–2001
Ana Laura Lusnich
Landscape and the Artist’s Frame in Lucrecia Martel’s La ciénaga/The Swamp and La niña santa/The Holy Girl
Amanda Holmes
Transactional Fiction: (Sub)urban Realism in the Films of Trapero and Caetano
Beatriz Urraca
Trigger-Happy: Police, Violence and the State in El bonaerense/The Policeman
James Scorer
The Socially Productive Web of Brazil’s Urban Über-dramas
Piers Armstrong
Fernando Meirelles’ Cidade de Deus/City of God: The Representation of Racial Resentment and Violence in the New Brazilian Social Cinema
Vanessa Fitzgibbon
IV. Gender
Staging Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Lucrecia Martel’s La ciénaga/The Swamp
Ana Peluffo
The Dystopian City: Gendered Interpretations of the Urban in Um Céu de Estrelas/A Starry Sky (Tata Amaral, 1996) and Vagón fumador/ Smokers Only (Verónica Chen, 2001)
Charlotte Gleghorn
Reimagining Rosinha with Andrucha Waddington and Elena Soarez: Nature, Woman and Sexuality in the Brazilian Northeast from Popular Music to Cinema
Jack A. Draper III
Taking Initiative: Brazilian Women’s Film-making Before and After the Retomada
Leslie L. Marsh
Notes on Contributors