Latin American Cinema

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Stephen M. Hart guides us through the story of how Hollywood dominancesuccumbed to the emergence of the nuevo cine Latinoamericano and howthis in turn led to the twenty-first century's 'New' New Latin AmericanCinema. He provides a fresh analysis of Latin American cinema as seenthrough the prism of the major changes in film technology, looking closelyat the films themselves and examining how their messages throughtechniques and tricks of the trade are expressed.

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"Hart has been running a documentary film-making summer school with me at the International Film and TV School (Escuela International de Cine y Television) in San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba, for the past seven years, and this experience of how to film and narrate Latin American reality is at the heart of his new monograph on Latin American film. Based on many years of research, "Latin American Cinema" is essential reading and offers critical insight into the complexities and contradictions which underpin our cinematographic culture." --Enrique Colina, director of Entre Ciclones (Cannes Film Festival, 2002)

Author Bio

Stephen M. Hart is Professor of Latin American Film, Literature and Culture at University College London. He has published a number of books including A Companion to Latin American Film (2004) and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Reaktion, 2010).