The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema [Paperback]

How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema? Comprising 15 essays and a critical introduction,The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinemaaddresses this question 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 problematise islands.

The book explores a diverse range of films that extend from the Chilean documentaries of Patricio Guzm?n to work on the Malvinas/Falkland Islands, and films by Argentine directors Gustavo Font?n and Lucrecia Martel. Chapters focus on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the Mexican Islas Mar?as, and the Panamanian Caribbean; on ecocritical, environmental and film historical aspects of Brazilian and Argentine river islands; and on Cuban, Guadeloupean, Haitian, and Puerto Rican contexts.

The Film Archipelagoargues 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, and fragility and dependency. As a whole, the collection demonstrates 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.

Antonio G?mezis Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Film at Tulane University, USA.

Francisco-J. Hern?ndez Adri?nis Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University, UK.

From Cuba to Rapa Nui/Easter Island, from 1930s Hollywood Mr. Moto murder-mysteries to contemporary Patricio Guzm?n documentaries,The Film Archipelagodraws on the uniqueness of islands ls