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Small Cinemas of the Andes
New Aesthetics, Practices and Platforms
Edited by Diana Coryat, Christian León and Noah Zweig
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This book examines the emergence of small cinemas of the Andes, covering digital peripheries in Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia. The volume critically assesses heterogeneous audiovisual practices and subaltern agents, elucidating existing tensions, contradictions and resistances with respect to established cinematic norms. The reason these small cinematic sectors are of interest is twofold: first, the film markets of the aforementioned countries are often eclipsed by the filmmaking giants of Mexico, Brazil and Argentina; second, within the Andean countries these small cinemas are overshadowed by film board-backed cinemas whose products are largely designed for international film festivals.
About the authors:
Diana Coryat is a media educator and practitioner affiliated with Mendocino College in California and Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Ecuador. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Christian Leon is a professor at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Ecuador and a visiting professor at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) (Ecuador). He holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences at Universidad de Buenos Aires.Noah Zweig is a research professor affiliated with Arizona State University Online and Universidad Internacional del Ecuador. He holds a Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Press Reviews:
"The diverse contributions address issues of sovereignty, representation, and autonomy in audiovisual cartographies belonging to Andean feminisms, indigenous communities, LBGTQI+ and local community production." (Juana Suárez, Associate Arts Professor, Cinema Studies, New York University, US)
"Expanding on their concept of small(er) cinemas Coryat, Zweig and León present an outstanding volume with a rich and layered examination of popular cinemas in the Andean regions of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. The various authors included in the volume bring our attention to multiple and pluricultural audiovisual productions--chonero, eco-territorial, indigenous, small communities; definitions and paradigms of circuits of media cultures--festivals as process; and of production cultures that respond to specific localities and histories. They convince us that the popular cultures discussed here are ever morerelevant if we are to take seriously the remaking of our perspectives and our world." (Cristina Venegas, Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, University of California Santa Barbara.)
"This significant and timely volume offers its readers a wonderfully rich set of essays that give voice and visibility to some of the diverse filmmaking and storytelling from a region that is often excluded from the cinematic discourse of the four nations it spans. The contributors elucidate the many shared characteristics, tensions, contradictions and approaches of the emergent cinemas of the Andes, revealing them as cultural disruptors that shine a new light on urban, rural and other peripheries of the global south." (Sarah Barrow, Professor of Film and Media, University of East Anglia)
"Powerful multinational streaming services have been introduced in Latin America, reshuffling production and transforming viewing practices. In this new media environment, this excellent volumeshifts our attention to under-the-radar and habitually overlooked audiovisual works. Sixteen case studies highlight emergent film practices and aesthetics that acknowledge the subjectivities of subaltern populations in the Andean region. The authors focus on the need to decentralize dominant languages, to give agency and recognition to unseen communities, and to reappraise what constitutes a national cinema. Ultimately, this book makes an outstanding argument for reassessing the complexities of local and global media." (Luisela Alvaray, Associate Professor, Media and Cinema Studies, DePaul University)
See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan
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