Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century: Dynamic and Unstable Grounds
- Submitting institution
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The University of East Anglia
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 182885171
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-52511-8
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This long-form output is the first English-language collection of essays on 21st-century Peruvian cinema and market dynamics, co-edited by Barrow. It consists of a 10,000 word co-authored introductory essay, sixteen 7,000-word essays including one authored by Barrow, and an epilogue which analyses Peru’s most recent cinematic production and relevant socio-political, legal and cultural contexts. Published in December 2020, it has already been recognised as a step-changing reference work that provides nuanced, rigorous and highly original approaches to a burgeoning national cinema, with emphasis on diversity, neoliberalism and precarity. The collaborative work was supported by a British Council grant (£10k, 2019).
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Barrow and Vich are acknowledged experts on Peruvian cinema, with Barrow’s award-winning monograph (2017) considered an important reference work. In 2018, they agreed to collaborate on an ambitious collection of essays which would reframe the conceptualisation of the cinema of Peru. The aim was to move from a fairly homogenous Lima-based perspective, to one that embrace filmmakers, products and practices from all over the country, drawing on theories of transculturalism, transnationalism, and indigeneity. The editors wanted to challenge traditional ideas of ‘national cinema’, and to explore a wider range of work made since 2000. The book’s subtitle flags their underlying concern: that contemporary Peruvian cinema may be thriving in terms of quantity and diversity of output, but funding and other support remain profoundly precarious, largely dependent on government whim.
The co-editors worked closely to discuss and decide upon the project’s scope and ambition and divided evenly the work of selecting and approaching contributors, identifying new voices as well as world-renowned scholars, critics, curators and filmmakers, many from Peru. They supported each contributor to shape their ideas such that each essay was distinctive and yet responded to the overarching themes. Contributors’ draft essays were commented on in detail multiple times by the editors, as part of an intensive process of revision and refinement. By actively discussing these ideas with contributors as the collection developed, and sharing in-progress work, themes and connections between essays emerged organically, suggesting new directions of study which in turn helped to (re)shape the substantial co-authored introductory essay.
Barrow also produced an original single-authored essay on the work of Omar Forero, a filmmaker largely neglected by scholarly projects despite the scope and success of his films, thus seeking to address the lack of attention paid to Peruvian filmmakers outside Lima and to disrupt the centre/periphery dichotomy.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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