While there are numerous film studies that focus on one particular grouping of films-by nationality, by era, or by technique-here is the first single volume that incorporates all of the above, ...offering a broad overview of experimental Latin American film produced over the last twenty years.
Analyzing seventeen recent films by eleven different filmmakers from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Paraguay, and Peru, Cynthia Tompkins uses a comparative approach that finds commonalities among the disparate works in terms of their influences, aesthetics, and techniques. Tompkins introduces each film first in its sociohistorical context before summarizing it and then subverting its canonical interpretation. Pivotal to her close readings of the films and their convergences as a collective cinema is Tompkins's application of Deleuzian film theory and the concept of the time-image as it pertains to the treatment of time and repetition. Tompkins also explores such topics as the theme of decolonization, the consistent use of montage, paratactically structured narratives, and the fusion of documentary conventions and neorealism with drama. An invaluable contribution to any dialogue on the avant-garde in general and to filmmaking both in and out of Latin America,Experimental Latin American Cinemais also a welcome and insightful addition to Latin American studies as a whole.
After a brief introduction to the stories interwoven in the documentary, this article reviews different approaches to the study of emotions. Focusing on William Reddy’s approach, it examines ...utterances about suffering experienced or transmitted from one generation to the next (postmemory) and underscores instances of resistance.
Después de un breve resumen de las historias que se entrelazan en el documental, este artículo presenta algunas aproximaciones al estudio del afecto. Enfocándose en la perspectiva de William Reddy procede a analizar los enunciados emocionales de integrantes de pueblos originarios, enfatizando el sufrimiento sentido y/o transmitido de generación en generación (postmemoria), así como múltiples ejemplos de resistencia.
Ante el fallecimiento de David W. Foster, gestor de la revista por 25 años, y el traspaso de Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana de Charles St-Georges en Denison University a Arizona State ...University, la actual editora decidió expandir la temática de la convocatoria (ver términos en negritas) Chasqui is seeking full-length manuscripts, 5,000-10,000 words (including notes and bibliography), in English, Spanish, or Portuguese, that focus on significant theoretical issues in the analysis of Latin American cultural production, with particular emphasis on literature. Essays that focus on interdisciplinary approaches such as environmental studies, Indigenous studies, critical race theory, subaltern studies, affect theories, feminism, queer and trans theories, disability studies, film, performance and media studies, popular culture, and the bridging of national and linguistic divisions, are especially encouraged. Essays dealing with specific texts or authors will only be of interest if they address theoretical, critical, and/ or methodological questions.
