I'd like to alert members to my new book: South American Cinematic
Culture: Policy, Production, Distribution and Exhibition
It is available from Cambridge Scholars Publishing
<http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/South-American-Cinematic-Culture--Policy--Production--Distribution-and-Exhibition1-4438-2483-6.htm>http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/South-American-Cinematic-Culture--Policy--Production--Distribution-and-Exhibition1-4438-2483-6.htm
and can also be purchased on Amazon's UK site.
Date Of Publication: Nov 2010
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-2483-5
Isbn: 1-4438-2483-6
This study of South American cinema offers a new way of approaching
the variety of films available in the region. It brings to light the
interconnectivity between state-run institutions (film councils,
cinemateques, archives), altruistic bodies (film festival funds,
NGOs) and commercial organisations (production companies, exhibitors
and distributors). Examples of filmmakers, policy initiatives,
funding sources and alternative film networks combine to produce a
rich overview of one of the most significant sites for non-Western
filmmaking in the twenty-first century. There is an awareness of the
place South American cinema has on the international stage and, for
this reason, the study involves an in depth look at the way film
products are circulated within national boundaries and through
external global circuits. Drawing on scholarship from studies on
Latin American culture, cultural policy, indigeneity, digital
technology, globalisation, transculturation and the public sphere,
new links are traced between the various fields.
Dr Miriam Ross is a Lecturer in Film Studies at Victoria University
Wellington, New Zealand. She completed her PhD thesis on South
American Cinema at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and has
undertaken a number of research trips in Latin America. Previously,
she published material based on Ibero-American film festivals,
alternative exhibition in Peru and film policy in South America. She
has also published material relating to South Korean cinema.
If anyone would like review copies please get in touch with the
publishers to see about availability.
best wishes
Miriam Ross
