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

*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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