{"title":"La conquista del espacio: cine silente uruguayo (1915–32), Georgina Torello (2018)","authors":"Juan Sebastián Ospina León","doi":"10.1386/slac_00050_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/slac_00050_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: La conquista del espacio: cine silente uruguayo (1915–32), Georgina Torello (2018)\u0000Montevideo: Editorial Yaugurú, 276 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978-9-97489-027-5, p/bk","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48027357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Two cines con niño: Genre and the Child Protagonist in Over Fifty Years of Spanish Film (1955–2010), Erin Hogan (2018)","authors":"Rachel Beaney","doi":"10.1386/slac_00053_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/slac_00053_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: The Two cines con niño: Genre and the Child Protagonist in Over Fifty Years of Spanish Film (1955–2010), Erin Hogan (2018)\u0000Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 236 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978-1-47443-611-3, h/bk, £75.00 and p/bk, £19.99","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66764404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A re-visionist Her-story of De cierta manera ([1974] 1977): Reading Yoruba myth in Sara Gómez’s revolutionary classic1","authors":"Susanne Hackett","doi":"10.1386/slac_00046_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/slac_00046_1","url":null,"abstract":"Recent scholarship on Sara Gómez has expanded upon existing discourse on her work beyond her singular feature film, De cierta manera/One Way or Another ([1974] 1977) to examine not only her earlier documentary shorts of the 1960s, but to demonstrate the impact that her body of work has had on a subsequent generation of Cuban filmmakers who continue her mission to critique the Revolution through an antiracist and feminist lens – contemporary filmmakers such as Gloria Rolando, Sandra Gómez and Susana Barriga. This article seeks to push this conversation forward by arguing several interrelated points: (1) that De cierta manera contains symbolic, visually embedded references to a specific patakí (myth) about the Afro-Cuban orishas Ogun and Ochún; (2) that De cierta manera holds this in common with Gloria Rolando’s Oggun: An Eternal Presence (1991), which tells the patakí in a more explicit manner, and therefore the two films warrant comparison and (3) lastly, that this interpretation of De cierta manera offers a novel take on a ‘classic’ Cuban revolutionary film, offering additional interpretive layers that do not change the message of the film, per se, but complicate it by adding an additional filter through which to view and interpret it: that of Yoruba moral philosophy. The Afro-Cuban word patakí in Cuban Lucumí liturgical speech refers to a parable with a moral lesson, and is derived from the word pàtàkì, which means ‘[something] important’ in the Yorùbá language of West Africa. This article will attempt to answer how and why this particular myth is ‘important’ (pàtàkì) to the reading of De cierta manera and argue for a broader re-centring and privileging of African-derived philosophical frameworks within Cuban intellectual history and popular culture.","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46451690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In (Spanish)","authors":"","doi":"10.5040/9781350965638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350965638","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81478418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethics, hospitality and aesthetics in Fresa y chocolate/Strawberry and Chocolate (Gutiérrez Alea and Tabío 1993) and Santa y Andrés/Santa and Andrés (Lechuga 2016)","authors":"Dunja Fehimović","doi":"10.1386/SLAC_00030_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/SLAC_00030_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article draws on Levinas’ ‘first ethics’ and Derrida’s account of hospitality in order to examine how Fresa y chocolate/\u0000Strawberry and Chocolate (Gutiérrez Alea and Tabío 1993) and Santa y Andrés/Santa and Andrés (Lechuga 2016)make perceptible (drawing on the etymology of aesthetics as ‘aistheta’, perceptible things) the problem of the encounter with the Other. As films, they inevitably thematize and reduce both the Other’s infinite alterity and our own infinite responsibility. However, whereas Santa y Andrés makes the viewer experience the uncertainty produced by the subject’s encounter with difference, developing an aesthetics that bears a trace of this ‘first ethics’, Fresa y chocolate reduces alterity in favour of resolution. Examining the characters’ interactions in light of Derrida’s ‘hostipitality’, it becomes clear that, whereas Alea’s work encourages us to forget the power imbalances that neuter Diego’s authority as host, Lechuga’s film gestures towards a pervasive sovereignty that determines the exercise of hospitality as ethical response. Thus, by acknowledging the uncomfortable proximity of hospitality, hostility and discipline, and by allowing the viewer to access a trace of the unsettling encounter with infinite otherness, Santa y Andrés encourages a more ethical engagement with difference than its predecessor.","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43443844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El Noticiario C.L.A.S.A., órgano de difusión gubernamental (1934‐52)","authors":"Tania Celina Ruiz Ojeda","doi":"10.1386/slac_00017_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/slac_00017_1","url":null,"abstract":"Mexican film was aligned with the state since its origins, but this union only generated continuous cinematographic production beginning in the 1930s, when the government of President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (1934‐40) signed a contract with the production\u0000 company that would go to become one of the most important producers of Mexican cinema of the Golden Age: la Cinematográfica Latinoamericana S.A. (CLASA). This article analyses the changes of discourse and narrative style used in these newsreels during three consecutive presidential\u0000 terms and outlines the working dynamics and the cinematic discourse of each government, as well as how newsreel formats reflected the agenda of each head of state.","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72811947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El uso del cine en la política indigenista mexicana: El cine del Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI) de su primera etapa (1956‐70)","authors":"Claudia Arroyo Quiroz","doi":"10.1386/slac_00019_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/slac_00019_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies the cinema produced by the National Indigenist Institute (INI) in its initial stage (1956‐70), to investigate how this institution used the moving image to promote its agendas. Through an analysis of the discursive and formal characteristics of the three\u0000 films produced during that era (Nuevos horizontes, Arenas [1956] 2010; Todos somos mexicanos, Arenas [1958] 2008; and Misión de Chichimecas, López [1970] 2008), I show how an audio-visual rhetoric was configured in which the voice-over expresses the guidelines\u0000 of the indigenista policy, but also opens up a space for the self-expression of the indigenous characters and for their languages. Likewise, I underline the specificity of the INI’s cinema during this early period in the wider context of Mexican cinema and in relation to different filmic\u0000 representations of indigenous people.","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72904484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Claudia Quiroz, Alvaro Vázquez Mantecón, D. Wood
{"title":"Forgotten cinemas: The institutional uses of documentary in twentieth-century Mexico (1930‐80)","authors":"Claudia Quiroz, Alvaro Vázquez Mantecón, D. Wood","doi":"10.1386/slac_00016_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/slac_00016_2","url":null,"abstract":"The special issue presented in this introduction focuses on the uses of documentary cinema in Mexico between 1930 and 1980 as part of the wider cultural policy of a variety of institutions that made films to express particular discourses or to promote their agendas. The institutions\u0000 under study include state agencies, international bodies, private media companies and marginal political organizations.","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"119 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86061967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mexicans in Nicaragua: Revolution and propaganda in Sandinista documentaries of the University Center for Cinematographic Studies (CUEC-UNAM)","authors":"Ana Daniela Nahmad Rodríguez","doi":"10.1386/slac_00020_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/slac_00020_1","url":null,"abstract":"Film production played a decisive role in the Nicaraguan Revolution. During the preparation of the 1979 Ofensiva Final (Final Offensive), the Sandinistas clearly understood the need to produce audio-visual documents that would serve as testimony and political propaganda\u0000 of this historic moment. To do so, they sought the support of internationalist filmmakers among whom a group of Mexicans were most prominent. This article focuses on materials on the Sandinista Revolution preserved at the film archive of the University Center for Cinematographic Studies (CUEC)\u0000 of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It analyses them in relation to the role of left-wing film internationalism in political documentary in Latin America and builds an ‘other’ history of a Mexican film institution that in the 1970s was uniquely politicized as\u0000 a result of the 1968 Mexican student movement and, later, the influence of Latin American exiles. As a particular case study, this article rescues one of the key figures of Mexican internationalism during the Sandinista Revolution, Adrián Carrasco Zanini Molina, and the role of Mexican\u0000 filmmakers in the creation of institutions dedicated to film production in Nicaragua such as the Nicaraguan Film Institute (INCINE).","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81420592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Docudrama for the emerging post-war order: Documentary film, internationalism and indigenous subjects in 1950s Mexico1","authors":"D. Wood","doi":"10.1386/slac_00018_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/slac_00018_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the productive tensions between the competing ideological discourses of post-war internationalism, Mexican post-revolutionary nationalism and local indigenous representational paradigms in the activities of the film unit of the UNESCO-sponsored adult education\u0000 centre (CREFAL) in the town of Pátzcuaro, Mexico in the 1950s, which combined village screenings of educational, promotional and informative movies from the world over, with the local production of pedagogical documentary shorts by non-professional filmmakers from across Latin America.\u0000 Inspired by the work of British documentarian Paul Rotha, whose United Nation picture World Without End (Mexico/Thailand/United Kingdom, 1953, codirected with Basil Wright) was partly filmed at CREFAL, these films frequently resorted to a docudrama format that enabled amateur documentary\u0000 filmmakers to engage with the agendas of their indigenous subjects even as they subordinated them to the United Nation’s call to hygiene, progress and civic values. In doing so, they responded creatively to appeals by theorists such as Kracauer and Grierson for a critical realist cinema.\u0000 They also acted as a link between the so-called ‘classical’ pre-war documentary movements in the United Kingdom, North America and elsewhere, and the later, socially committed new cinemas.","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85010652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}