{"title":"The perfect spectatorship: Culture and criticism in Mexico’s La dictadura perfecta/The Perfect Dictatorship (2014) and Ingobernable/Ungovernable (2017)","authors":"Pablo Zavala","doi":"10.1386/SLAC.16.2.251_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/SLAC.16.2.251_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90988104","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":"Compulsive memory: The endurance of 1969 in Brazil","authors":"P. Moreira","doi":"10.1386/SLAC.16.2.233_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/SLAC.16.2.233_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"150 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86152526","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":"Minimal gestures: Displacement, affect and urban experience in A hora da estrela/The Hour of the Star (Amaral, 1985)","authors":"Mariana Cunha","doi":"10.1386/SLAC.16.2.177_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/SLAC.16.2.177_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88459024","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":"Digital access, genre bending: Four Seasons in Havana (Viscarret, 2016) and the Ibero-American audio-visual space","authors":"Luisela Alvaray","doi":"10.1386/SLAC.16.2.155_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/SLAC.16.2.155_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89014814","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":"La música en el cine español, entre el falangismo y el nacionalcatolicismo: de Tierra y Cielo (1941) a Forja de Almas (1943)","authors":"C. Alonso","doi":"10.1386/SLAC.16.2.195_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/SLAC.16.2.195_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88169486","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}
William Brown, María Soledad Montañez, David Martin-Jones
{"title":"Uruguayan cinema today: Interviews with three Uruguayan directors","authors":"William Brown, María Soledad Montañez, David Martin-Jones","doi":"10.1386/SLAC.16.1.111_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/SLAC.16.1.111_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article includes interviews with three contemporary Uruguayan film directors, Guillermo Casanova, Federico Veiroj and Silvana Camors. They answer questions about the state of cinema in contemporary Uruguay, offering varying perspectives on different aspects of Uruguayan film culture, from issues surrounding funding and distribution to the role of digital technology and the importance of maintaining film archives. Although the filmmakers identify numerous difficulties for Uruguayan filmmakers, especially at the level of institutional and financial support, they nonetheless remain grimly optimistic that Uruguayan cinema has a future.","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75184423","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":"What is the ‘Silent House’?: Interpreting the international appeal of Tokio Films’ Uruguayan horror La casa muda/The Silent House","authors":"David Martin-Jones, María Soledad Montañez","doi":"10.1386/SLAC.16.1.25_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/SLAC.16.1.25_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the micro-budget Uruguayan horror movie, La casa muda/The Silent House (Hernandez, 2010), as exemplar of the difficulties that Uruguayan filmmakers face in production and (international) distribution and the innovative means that they develop to negotiate these issues. Like many Uruguayan films, La casa muda premiered internationally (at the Cannes Film Festival) and, as outlined in the article, it follows a similar aesthetic and narrative ‘backgrounding’ of the nation (the deliberate erasure of indicators of national identity, such as national monuments) to that of Uruguayan art films. Nevertheless, its production history and journey to international prominence remains rather unique. This distinction reinforces the importance of the festival circuit in facilitating the production and distribution of Uruguayan art films, but, also – as is less often discussed – the television industry and especially the Internet as counter-balances to the dominance of Hollywood’s outreach in the region. Moreover, the ‘ambiguous’ nature of the film’s narrative and iconographic content illustrates how Uruguayan filmmakers simultaneously meet, and depart from, international audience expectations. Ultimately, La casa muda is not of interest specifically for being a Latin American horror film, but because it travelled internationally using the same distribution platforms (the festival circuit, DVD release) and aesthetic strategies as many preceding Uruguayan (and Latin American) art films, only this time to confound established expectations of films travelling these routes.","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"228 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75088889","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":"‘One Cinema, One Country’: Cultural value and public recognition of Uruguayan Cinema in the early twenty-first century","authors":"Rosario Radakovich","doi":"10.1386/SLAC.16.1.89_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/SLAC.16.1.89_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86193968","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":"Uruguayan film criticism in the post-dictatorship era: Traditions and ruptures, theoretical perspectives and relationships within the critical field","authors":"M. Amieva","doi":"10.1386/SLAC.16.1.73_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/SLAC.16.1.73_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82066033","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":"Fede Álvarez and the impossibility of Uruguayan Cinema","authors":"William Brown","doi":"10.1386/slac.16.1.49_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/slac.16.1.49_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40780,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73438009","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}