During the 1967 festival of Latin American Cinema in Vina del Mar, Chile, a group of filmmakers who wanted to use film as an instrument of social awareness and change formed the New Latin American Cinema. Nearly three decades later, the New Cinema has produced an impressive body of films, critical essays, and manifestos that uses social theory to inform filmmaking practices.
This book explores the institutional and aesthetic foundations of the New Latin American Cinema. Zuzana Pick maps out six areas of inquiry--history, authorship, gender, popular cinema, ethnicity, and exile--and...
During the 1967 festival of Latin American Cinema in Vina del Mar, Chile, a group of filmmakers who wanted to use film as an instrument of social a...
