While the new Argentine cinema has signalled the fall of the nation-state, it has also bolstered national reconstruction
Categories: Argentina, South America
Tag: Cinema
The Empire’s Old Clothes
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Categories: Argentina, Chile, South America
Elephantine elegy
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Georgina Jiménez explains why Tusk is not Alejandro Jodorowksy’s greatest work, but still leaves viewers scratching their heads
Categories: Chile, Mexico, North America, South America
Interpreting the menu
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The academic Nathanial Gardner has tasted the many flavours of the classic Mexican novel and film Como agua para chocolate, and explains why this best-selling work left audiences so satisfied
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Taste of success
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Nathanial Gardner’s pithy and succinct critical examination of Como agua para chocolate provides fascinating insights into the classic book and film
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
On Location in Cuba
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The Earth turned to bring us closer
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If an image is worth a thousand words, some of those will need to be read, not heard, to be fully understood. Montague Kobbe and Adolfo Calero explore poetry and the cinematic code
Categories: Mexico, North America, South America, United States, Uruguay
Terror’s celluloid legacy
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Constanza Burucúa’s study of how Argentine film-makers grappled with the ‘Dirty War’ confirms cinema’s importance to democratic culture
Categories: Argentina, South America
And the state invented woman
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A new concept of womankind was forged in post-revolutionary Mexico
Categories: Mexico, North America
No wave José
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After the Buena Onda, was there anything left? Yes – lots of talent, as Jason Wood explains in The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema
Categories: Uncategorized