I have decided to Storify this conference here.
Category: Latin American Film
What’s in a name?
For academics and authors naming something is quite a responsibility, but one which we don’t always give the right sort of thought. Titles can be descriptive, provocative, thought-provoking, catchy, reliant on puns or zeitgeisty. However you think about it, it is how we market our work, whether we are naming our grand mangum opus (which…
Review: Robert Burgoyne (ed) The Epic in World Culture
My review of this book: Robert Burgoyne (ed) The Epic in World Culture New York and London: AFI Film Readers and Routledge, 2011, 391pp, ISBN978-0-415-99018-9 appears in Spanish here, in the online Argentine journal Imagofagia. For an English version see, below. The epic is a genre that is associated with reactionary and outmoded notions of fixed…
Further reflections on Third cinema
To add to my post of the 15th of March, here’s Michael Chanan’s reflection on Third Cinema: http://tinyurl.com/7bvordp
Latin American “Third” Cinema and its Legacies
A two-day colloquium at the University of Oxford, 9th-10th March 2012, on “third” cinema, was both stimulating and varied. What is “third” cinema? The inverted commas were, no doubt a deliberate acknowledgement of the difficulties involved in using the word “third”, due to its links to third worldism and the first world/third world divide that…
Student protests in Chile
Here is a link to Michael Chanan’s report on his recent visit to Chile and the student protests that are taking place there: http://www.putneydebater.com/2011/12/13/the-persistence-of-allende%e2%80%99s-vision/