Transnational Film Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Film.

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

How have recent Latin American films contributed to and/ or challenged notions of the transnational? Following recent work by critics like Deborah Shaw, this panel will consider how contemporary Latin American cinema contributes to the concept of transnational cinema, while responding to “the limitations of conceptualizing film in terms of national cinemas” (47). To this end, this panel proposes to examine how an attention to the formal investments and poetics of recent Latin American cinema not only responds to a specific socio-political, historical, and cultural context, but also participates in constructing a sense of the poetics of the transnational today.

Sub Track

• Film Studies

Chairs

• Susana Domingo Amestoy, University of Massachusetts, Boston

• Eduardo Ledesma, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Individual Presentations

• El cine latinoamericano en el escenario transnacional - Marta Álvarez, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comte; Laureano Montero, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté

• Pocket Cinema: Latin American Cell Phone Films in the Postdigital Age - Eduardo Ledesma, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• El actual cine poético hispanoamericano como propuesta queer - Júlia González de Canales Carcereny, University of Vienna

• Cine contemplativo transnacional: el caso chileno en la poética de Nilles Atallah. - Susana Domingo Amestoy, University of Massachusetts, Boston

• Neoliberalism and “Dead Time” in the Films of Carlos Reygadas - Eugenio Di Stefano