How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema? Comprising sixteen essays and a critical introduction, The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema addresses this by examining a series of intersections between insular spaces and filmmaking in Latin America. The volume brings together international scholars and filmmakers to consider a diverse corpus of films about islands, films that take place on islands, films produced in islands, and films that problematize islands. The book explores a diverse range of films that extend from the Chilean documentaries of Patricio Guzman to work on the Malvinas/Falkland Islands, and films by Argentine directors Gustavo Fontan and Lucrecia Martel. Chapters focus on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the Mexican Islas Marias, and the Panamanian Caribbean, and on ecocritical, environmental and film historical aspects of Brazilian and Argentine river islands; on Haitian, Puerto Rican, and Guadeloupean contexts; and on the complex location of the San Andres, Providencia and Santa Catalina archipelago in Colombian media archives. The Film Archipelago argues that the islands and archipelagos of Latin American cinema constitute a critically interesting, analytically complex, and historically suggestive angle to explore issues of marginality and peripherality, remoteness and isolation, fragility and dependency. As a whole, the collection demonstrates through a series of rigorous and nuanced analyses to what extent the combined insular and archipelagic lens can re-frame and re-figure both longstanding and recent discussions on the spaces of Latin American cinema.

Book Information
ISBN 9781350157965
Author Antonio Gomez
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 156g