[ecrea] Spanish & Latin American Cinemas 15.2 journal published

Intellect is happy to announce that /Studies in Spanish & Latin American 
Cinemas 
<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=125/view,page=0/>/15.2 
is now available. For more information about /SLAC/ 15.2 including how 
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Articles within this issue include (partial list):

_Central American cinematographic aesthetics and their role in 
international film festivals_

Authors:  Andrea Cabezas Vargas And  Júlia González de Canales Carcereny
Page Start: 163

Arturo Menéndez’s award-winning Malacrianza/The Crow’s Nest (2014) 
chronicles the tribulations of Don Cleo, a poor piñata salesman 
suffering from mental and physical ailments. Cleo’s life is turned 
upside down when he receives an extortion letter asking for US$500 in 
exchange for his life. This article examines Malacrianza’s linkage 
between the protagonist’s body and his ailments and the broader 
sociopolitical matrix. I argue that the symptoms he demonstrates are 
manifestations of the impact of civil war and urban violence upon the 
social telos of Central America. My study explores phenomenological film 
analysis as a tool for examining affects and their circulations in the 
film. By using an affective code, Malacrianza engages the viewer in an 
intimate experience of the violence(s) of contemporary El Salvador.

_Symptoms of a civil war: Affect, disease and urban violence in Arturo 
Menéndez’s Malacrianza/The Crow’s Nest (2014)_

Authors:  María del Carmen Caña Jiménez
Page Start: 217

This article provides a brief aesthetic history of Central American 
cinema, outlining the impact of limited resources, sociopolitical 
conflicts and global aesthetic trends on regional film production. 
Focusing on films produced in the late 1990s and the early 2000s, it 
analyses how contemporary Central American films have overcome economic 
and material limitations and generated films that obtained acclaim in 
regional and international circuits. It also analyses the impact of 
international film festivals on Central American film production, 
focusing on the work of the Central American, yet also transnational, 
directors Julio Hernández Cordón and Tatiana Huezo.

_Performing for Hollywood: Coloniality and the tourist image in Esteban 
Ramírez’s Caribe/Caribbean (2004)_

Authors:  Liz Harvey-Kattou
Page Start: 249

This article problematizes US–Costa Rican cultural and ideological 
relations through an analysis of Esteban Ramírez’s Caribe/Caribbean 
(2004) by arguing that it unconsciously invites an international 
audience to colonize Costa Rica – and Latin America more widely – via 
the tourist gaze. Beginning by considering Ramírez’s anti-imperialist 
stance within the film’s plot, which underscores the sovereignty of the 
Central American nation, I argue that these aims are undone through the 
exoticization of space and place. The article analyses how the tropical 
image of the nation is internalized by the film and how hegemonic 
Hollywood tropes of ethnicity and gender are mimicked and performed.

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