Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Claudia Sandberg is a filmmaker and Senior Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research is concerned with relations between European and Latin American cinemas. Sandberg co-directed Peliculas Escondidas (2016), a documentary about Chilean émigré artists in East Germany, and is co-editor of The German Cinema Book 2 (2018).Carolina Rocha is Professor of Spanish at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA. She specializes in contemporary Latin American cinema. She is author of Argentine Cinema and National Identity (1966-1976) (2017) and Masculinities in Contemporary Argentine Popular Cinema (2012), and editor of Modern Argentine Masculinities (2013) and several other volumes about Latin American film.

• 1. Contemporary Latin American Cinema and Resistance to Neoliberalism: Mapping the Field (Claudia Sandberg).- 2. Southern Hegemonies and Metaphors of the Global South in También la Lluvia (Alfredo Martínez-Expósito).- 3. Neoliberal Masculinities in Contemporary Peruvian Cinema: Octubre and El limpiador (Rosana Díaz-Zambrana).- 4. New Geographies of Class in Mexican and Brazilian Cinemas: Post Tenebras Lux and Que horas ela volta? (María Mercedes Vázquez Vázquez).- 5. Paraíso ¿Cuánto pesa el amor?: Challenging the Neoliberal in Mexican Cinema (Niamh Thornton).- 6. Güeros: Social Fragmentation, Political Agency, and the Mexican Film Industry under Neoliberalism (Jacobo Asse Dayán).- 7. Negotiating Neoliberal Demands on Contemporary Cinema: The Role and Influence of the Socially Committed Film Producer in Peru (Sarah Barrow).- 8. Larraín’s No: A Tale of Neoliberalism (María Paz Peirano).- 9. Crowdfunding Images of Colombia and Ecuador: International Collaborations and Transnational Circulation in a Neoliberal Context (Carolina Rocha).- 10. Argentine Cinema in the Age of Digitization: Between Foreign Dominance and Discussion of Benefits (Andrea Morán and Miguel Fernández Labayen).- 11. Social Cinema in Neoliberal Times: The Macabre Baroque in the Films of Pablo Larraín (Walescka Pino-Ojeda).- 12. Between Armed Conflict, Social Awareness, and the Neoliberal Market: The Case of Alias María (Carlos de Oro).- 13. Maximiliano Schonfeld’s Films of the Volga Germans in Entre Ríos: About the Neoliberal Devil in Argentine Cinema (Claudia Sandberg).- 14. Community Film in Southern Greater Buenos Aires: Emerging Voices and the Economy of Film as Resistance to Neoliberalism (Andrea Molfetta).