Critical Essays on Colombian Cinema and Culture

JUANA SUÁREZ is an Adjunct Faculty Member at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Cinema Studies, and a candidate to the Master of Arts in Moving Image and Archive Preservation (2013). She is the author of Sitios de Contienda: Producción Cultural Colombiana y el Discurso de la Violencia (2010) and Cinembargo Colombia: Ensayos Críticos sobre Cine y Cultura (2009).   LAURA CHESAK is Associate Professor of Romance Languages (Spanish) and Interim Associate Dean at The Graduate School of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.

• Translator's Preface by Laura Chesak Introduction Chaos, Myths, and Silences: Early Colombian Filmmaking Constructing a Cinematic Discourse on La Violencia Capturing the Margin: Cinema and Liminality in Colombia Gendered Genres: Women Pioneers in Colombian Cinema Visual Disjunctions: From the Experimental to Tropical Gothic Decentering the Centro : Film Noir and the Metamorphosis of Bogotá Reframing Violence: Towards Other Aesthetic Languages Searching for Images, Negotiating Transnational Spaces: The Reinvention of Colombian Cinema

"Dense but fascinating reading,this a book for specialists in film studies, Latin American studies, and cultural studies. Suarez writes with solid theoretical grounding regarding both feature films and documentaries by Colombian cineasts. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students and researchers." - CHOICE