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[ecrea] Call for Chapters Latin American Filmmaking: From the New Cinemas to Liberalism

Fri May 06 20:02:23 GMT 2016




*Latin American Filmmaking: From the New Cinemas to Neoliberalism *

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*How has neoliberalism affected film and filmmaking in Latin America? *

In the 1960s, Latin America lived a short phase of hope for political change, independence and cultural vitality. In the wake of dictatorships soon to be brutally installed in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and other Latin American countries, intellectuals and artists actively participated in social reformation processes. The New Latin American Cinema,mostly represented by Cinema Novo, Third Cinema and Imperfect Cinema, were cinematic languages developed to offer social empowerment and to resist foreign political domination and economic exploitation. Forty years onwards, the landscape is profoundly changed. Most Latin American nations live with a neoliberal political and economic model in which filmmaking more often than not reflects a culture that is linked with commercial models.

Our volume explores the pan-American project of the New Latin American Cinema as an important political impetus and as a film-historical point of departure to examine continuities and changes in current film that happened as a result of neoliberal political and economic realities. Weinvite papers that investigate the following questions: What has changed and what has remained from the idea of revolutionary, militant cinemas of the 1960s and 1970s in contemporary films, such as /Nine Queens /(2000), /Elite Squad /(2007), /No/ (2012), or /Heli /(2013)?How did the privatizing of state-owned companies and dismantling of welfare systems give shape to narrative and aesthetic formats, and affect distribution and exhibition practices of Latin American film? Have some of the older filmmaking practices resurged in the new films? If so, in which forms do questions of the past become addressed?

Possible areas of investigations may include but are not limited to:

·film aesthetics and narratives

·filmmaking practices

·distribution and exhibition strategies

·audiences

·the role of the state in film production

·preferred genres, redefinition of political cinema

·film funding and film festivals

We encourage submissions from graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty in English or Spanish. 500-word abstracts and a 100-word bio are due by 30 June, 2016. Notification of selection will be made by 31 July, 2016. Final papers of 6000 words are due by 30 December, 2016. Please send abstract and bio to *(claudia.sandberg /at/ unimelb.edu.au)* <mailto:(claudia.sandberg /at/ unimelb.edu.au)>**and/or *(manuel.perezt /at/ udem.edu)* <mailto:(manuel.perezt /at/ udem.edu)>*. *



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