A Companion to Latin American Cinema
- Submitting institution
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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- MDEL4
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1002/9781118557556
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- ISBN
- 9781118557556
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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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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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘A Companion to Latin American Cinema’ is a 271,400-word volume, co-edited by Maria Delgado, Stephen Hart (UCL), and Randal Johnson (UCLA). Delgado co-authored the 10,474-word introduction with Hart and Johnson, and a 17,700-word chapter on politics, memory, and fiction(s) in Argentine cinema during the Kirchnerist years with Cecilia Sosa. Delgado also authored four of the seven interview chapters in the collection, researching the filmmaker’s career in order to prepare and conduct the interview, then editing the interview for publication and further contextualising it for the reader with footnotes and an appropriate bibliography. These interview chapters, bringing the voices of diverse filmmakers from Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, and Mexico into the volume’s critical debates, are: 25. “‘Finding the right balance’: An Interview with Martín Rejtman” (7,000 words); 26. “‘Escaping from an ordinary world into a more epic one’: An Interview with Álvaro Brechner” (7,100 words); 27. “‘The capacity to create mystery’: An Interview with Pablo Larraín” (7,700 words); 29. “‘Meeting points’: An Interview with Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás” (7,000 words); 30. “‘Film is about connecting’: An Interview with Diego Luna” (5,100 words). In order to commission the volume, Delgado, Hart, and Johnson undertook contextual research on existing scholarship on Latin American cinema to ensure that the volume provided new perspectives on developments in the continent. These include: the work of smaller Central and South American nations (as with Costa Rica and Uruguay), the trajectories of women directors (as with Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás, and Jeanette Paillán), indigenous filmmaking and cross-currents between television and cinema, as well as broader considerations of stardom, industry policy, film festivals, and funding initiatives in national cinema cultures.
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- Non-English
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