Screening intercultural landscapes in Latin American moving-images: displacements and identities

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

We use different approaches to analyze contemporary films defined by the figures of displacement. These textual procedures are central to the comprehension of the intercultural cinematic landscapes, which reveal aspects of the construction of identity in Latin America. The following topics will be considered: road movies and its influence in fictional and non-fictional domains; African diaspora, indigenous communities, migration processes and the thematic and esthetic construction of the mestizo on screen; urbanization, social mobility and violence in the construction of territorial identity; and the relationship between sexual and gender construction in the voices of alterity highlighted in these films.

Sub Track

• Film Studies

Session Organizer

• Gilberto A Sobrinho, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Individual Presentations

• Orí y las voces de la diáspora: feminismo negro, identidad y film ensayo - Gilberto A Sobrinho, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

• Screening the Brazilian indigenous experience in the 21st century - Stephanie R Dennison, University of Leeds

• The migrant body and the landscape: the affective displacement of Jean Gentil (2010) - Edwin Culp, Universidad Iberoamericana

• Geographical Imagination and Melancholy Drift in Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) - Angela F Prysthon, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco