Contemporary Hispanic Cinema: Interrogating the Transnational in Spanish and Latin American Film

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This book focuses on the cross-currents and points of contact in film production among so-called Hispanic countries (Spain, Portugal and Latin America), and in particular the impact that co-production and supranational funding initiatives are having on both the film industries and the films of Latin America in the twenty-first century. Together with chapters that discuss and further develop transnational approaches to reading films in the Hispanic and Latin American context, the volume includes chapters that focus on funding initiatives, such as IBERMEDIA, that are aimed at Spain, Portugal and Latin America. An analysis of such initiatives facilitates a nuanced discussion of the range of meanings afforded to the term transnationalism: from the workings of those driven by economic imperatives, such as co-productions and 'Hispanic' film festivals, to the cultural, for example the invention of a marketable 'Latinamericaness' in Spain, or a 'Hispanic aesthetic' elsewhere. Dedication Contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors Preface • Stephanie Dennison 1 National, Transnational and Post-national: Issues in Contemporary Film-making in the Hispanic World • Stephanie Dennison 2 Redefining Transnational Cinemas: A Transdisciplinary Perspective • Libia Villazana 3 Deconstructing and Reconstructing ‘Transnational Cinema’ • Deborah Shaw 4 Ibero-Latin American Co-productions: Transnational Cinema, Spain’s Public Relations Venture or Both? • Tamara L. Falicov 5 Building Latin American Cinema in Europe: Cine en Construcción/ Cinéma en construction • Nuria Triana Toribio 6 Pedro Almodóvar’s Latin American ‘Business’ • Marvin D’Lugo 7 Transnational Film Financing and Contemporary Peruvian Cinema: The Case of Josué Méndez • Sarah Barrow 8 The Silenced Screen: Fostering a Film Industry in Paraguay • Catherine Leen 9 Finance and Co-productions in Brazil • Alessandra Meleiro Afterword • Stephanie Dennison Works Cited Index