Author: Indranil Chakravarty
S V Raman/Samik Bandyopadhyay
Editor(s): Indranil Chakravarty / S V Raman
Publisher: Celluloid Chapter
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 268
ISBN/UPC (if available): B003DRQUWE
Description
A selection of readings-memoiral and critical texts, manifestoes, and interviews-by/with major Latin American film personalities-directors, scriptwriters, technicians, critics-offers insights into cinema in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Cuba, countries which have moved through continuing political uncertainties and upheavals and explosion of violence, and in the midst of it all have nurtured distinctive styles of radical filmmaking.
While most of the material gathered for this volume is not easily accessible, there has been a conscious endeavour to avoid Euro-American perceptions/criticisms of the works, and to let the Latin Americans speak for themselves, often in direct encounters/dialogues with Indian critics.
There is a natural emphasis on questions of theory ad ideology, questions that have been posed, defined and redefined in the tempestuous process of filmmaking in a continuous state of siege. A lot of background information provides the required setting and framework for a fresh, objective reading of the films of directors like Birri, Littin, Alea, Sanjines, Solanas, Solas, Rocha, and dos Santos. A section of stills enriches the documentation.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Cinema in Latin America: A Cultural-Historical Perspective
INDRANIL CHAKRAVARTY
ARGENTINA
Argentine Cinema: Overview
SAMIK BANDYOPADHYAY
Poem in the Form of a Film Poster
FERNANDO BIRRI
Argentine Cinema: Cinema and Underdevelopment
FERNANDO BIRRI
Some Notes on the concept of a Third Cinema
OCTAVIO GETINO
Godard and Solanas in Conversation
JEAN-LUC GODDARD AND FERNANDO SOLANAS
Journeys with Solanas
INDRANIL CHAKRAVARTY
BOLIVIA
Bolivian Cinema: Overview
SAMIK BANDYOPADHYAY
Language and Popular Culture
JORGE SANJINES
In Search for a People’s Cinema
JORGE SANJINES
An Interview with Jorge sanjines
SAIKAT BHATTACHARYA
BRAZIL
Brazilian Cinema: Overview
SAMIK BANYOPADHYAY
The Brazilian Cinema: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
FABIANO CANOSA
History of Cinema Navo
GLAUBER ROCHA
After Barren Lives: the Legacy of Cinema Novo: Nelson Pereira Dos Santos Interviewed
RICHARD PENA
CHILE
Chilean Cinema: Overview
SAMIK BANDYOPADHYAY
Miguel Littin Interviewed
SAMIK BANDYOPADHYAY
CUBA
Cuban Cinema: Overview
SAMIK BANDYOPADHYAY
A Film School for Latin America
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Interviewed
SUSANA CATO
Rapture and Rapture: Rediscovering Eisenstein and Brecht
TOMAS GUTTERREZ ALEA
Tomas Gutierrez Alea Interviewed
ROXANA POLLO
Birth Certificate of the International School of Cinema
FERNANDO BIRRI
Epilogue
INDRANIL CHAKRAVARTY