Transatlantic Cinephilia

Film Culture between Latin America and France, 1945–1965

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by Rielle Navitski

Type

Studies

Subject

General

Keywords

cinephilia, Latin America, France, 1950s

Publishing date

2023

Publisher

University of California Press

Collection

Cinema Cultures in Contact

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 336 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-520-39143-7

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Book Presentation:
In the two decades after World War II, a vibrant cultural infrastructure of cineclubs, archives, festivals, and film schools took shape in Latin America through the labor of film enthusiasts who often worked in concert with French and France-based organizations. In promoting the emerging concept and practice of art cinema, these film-related institutions advanced geopolitical and class interests simultaneously in a polarized Cold War climate. Seeking to sharpen viewers' critical faculties as a safeguard against ideological extremes, institutions of film culture lent prestige to Latin America's growing middle classes and capitalized on official and unofficial efforts to boost the circulation of French cinema, enhancing the nation's soft power in the wake of military defeat and occupation. As the first book-length, transnational analysis of postwar Latin American film culture, Transatlantic Cinephilia deepens our understanding of how institutional networks have nurtured alternative and nontheatrical cinemas.

About the Author:
Rielle Navitski is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia and author of Public Spectacles of Violence: Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil.

See the publisher website: University of California Press