Interpreting independence in Latin American cinema today: the digital option

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dc.contributor.authorde la Garza, Armida
dc.contributor.editorRichardson, Bill
dc.contributor.editorKelly, Lorraine
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-05T15:26:45Z
dc.date.available2017-01-05T15:26:45Z
dc.date.issued2012-08
dc.date.updated2014-05-18T19:19:06Z
dc.description.abstractGlobalisation has transformed “independence” into, at best, “inter-dependence”. In Latin American film, this process has been experienced as a decline in the national productions, now usually co-productions, and a tendency towards the self-exoticising as films cater for a festival-circuit global audience; similarly, theatrical exhibition takes place in one of a handful of the global multiplex complexes. Moreover, narrative film itself has long been regarded as inherently “dependent”, on the conservative sectors that have provided its finance, with the word “independent” referring to authorial features only. However, the very same processes that have allowed for such an unprecedented corporate control of these film industries have also spawned a parallel network of local, regional and national filmmaking, distribution and exhibition through digital media. From the “Mi Cine” project in Mexico to the “Cine Piquetero” in Argentina, digital filmmaking is empowering viewers and restoring agency to local filmmakers. In this paper I argue for this understanding of “independence” in the contemporary cinematic spheres of Latin America: the re-appropriation, amidst the transnationalism of the day, of the democratising potential of cinema that Walter Benjamin once thought was inherent to the medium.en
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dc.identifier.citationDe La Garza, A. (2012) 'Interpreting Independence in Latin American Cinema Today: The Digital Option' In: Richardson, B. and Kelly, L. (eds.). Power, Place and Representation: Contested Sites of Dependence and Independence in Latin America. Oxford: Peter Lang. pp. 157-172 doi: 10.3726/978-3-0353-0336-0en
dc.identifier.doi10.3726/978-3-0353-0336-0
dc.identifier.endpage172en
dc.identifier.isbn9783035303360
dc.identifier.startpage157en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/3433
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPeter Langen
dc.relation.ispartofPower, Place and Representation: Contested Sites of Dependence and Independence in Latin America
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHispanic studies: culture and ideas; v. 45.
dc.relation.urihttps://www.peterlang.com/view/product/44716
dc.rights© 2012, Peter Lang: Oxford. This is the author accepted manuscript (i.e. manuscript version after peer-review) of the book chapter. The definitive published version of record is available from https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/44716en
dc.subjectDigital Cinemaen
dc.subjectMexicoen
dc.subjectIndependenceen
dc.titleInterpreting independence in Latin American cinema today: the digital optionen
dc.title.alternativeThe digital option: interpreting independence in Latin American cinema todayen
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