Small Cinemas of the Andes: New Aesthetics, Practices and Platforms
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xix, 378 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 978-3-031-32018-7 (ebook); 978-3-031-32017-0 (print)
"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." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction: Theorizing and Contextualizing Small(er) Cinemas of the Andes / Diana Coryat, Christian León, and Noah Zweig, 1
PART I: FILMING SMALLER NATIONS
2 Filming the Andes: Contemporary Aesthetic Configurations of the Andean World / Karolina Romero, 29
3 Technological Appropriation and Audiovisual Sovereignty in an Indigenous Key / Pablo Mora Calderón, 47
4 Indigenous Audiovisual Producers of Ecuador: An Integral Practice of "Cosmovivencia" / Eliana Champutiz, 73
5 Indigenous Audiovisual Practices, Post-National Discourses and Poetics of the Small / Christian León, 91
6 Audiovisual Practices and Production of the Commons / Luz Estrello and Julio César Gonzales Oviedo, 115
PART II: IMAGES OF THE SMALL COMMUNITY
7 Recovering One's Own Voice to Redefine What is Visible, Desirable and Possible: La Escuela Audiovisual Al Borde / Ana Lucia Ramírez Mateus, 137
8 Ojo Semilla: Weaving Feminisms Through Community Cinema / Diana Coryat, Carolina Dorado Lozano, and Karla Valeri Morales Aguayo, 157
9 From the Festival-as-Event to the Festival-as-Process: A Journey Through Community Film Festivals in Colombia / Natalia López Cerquera, 179
10 Eco-Territorial Cinema: An Intercultural, Translocal, and Expanded Community Process / Yadis Vanessa Vanegas-Toala, 197
11 Notes Toward a History of Amateur Filmmaking in Guayaquil / Libertad Gills, 219
12 Ay De Mí Que Ardiendo,…¡Puedo! An Extensive Note on María Galindo's Bastard Cinema / Viola Varotto, 235
PART III: GUERRILLA, REGIONAL AND PERIPHERAL CINEMA
13 Rethinking Subaltern "Modernities:" El Cine Chonero Popular, 1994-2015 / Noah Zweig, 257
14 Peruvian Regional Cinema / Emilio Bustamante and Jaime Luna-Victoria, 279
15 Minor Cinemas, Major Issues: Horror Films and the Traces of the Internal Armed Conflict in Peru / Diana Cuéllar Ledesma, 303
16 Colombian Popular Cinemas: Expressions from and About Violence / Luisa González, 325
17 Images of Difference in Bolivian Cinema / Sergio Zapata, 347
PART I: FILMING SMALLER NATIONS
2 Filming the Andes: Contemporary Aesthetic Configurations of the Andean World / Karolina Romero, 29
3 Technological Appropriation and Audiovisual Sovereignty in an Indigenous Key / Pablo Mora Calderón, 47
4 Indigenous Audiovisual Producers of Ecuador: An Integral Practice of "Cosmovivencia" / Eliana Champutiz, 73
5 Indigenous Audiovisual Practices, Post-National Discourses and Poetics of the Small / Christian León, 91
6 Audiovisual Practices and Production of the Commons / Luz Estrello and Julio César Gonzales Oviedo, 115
PART II: IMAGES OF THE SMALL COMMUNITY
7 Recovering One's Own Voice to Redefine What is Visible, Desirable and Possible: La Escuela Audiovisual Al Borde / Ana Lucia Ramírez Mateus, 137
8 Ojo Semilla: Weaving Feminisms Through Community Cinema / Diana Coryat, Carolina Dorado Lozano, and Karla Valeri Morales Aguayo, 157
9 From the Festival-as-Event to the Festival-as-Process: A Journey Through Community Film Festivals in Colombia / Natalia López Cerquera, 179
10 Eco-Territorial Cinema: An Intercultural, Translocal, and Expanded Community Process / Yadis Vanessa Vanegas-Toala, 197
11 Notes Toward a History of Amateur Filmmaking in Guayaquil / Libertad Gills, 219
12 Ay De Mí Que Ardiendo,…¡Puedo! An Extensive Note on María Galindo's Bastard Cinema / Viola Varotto, 235
PART III: GUERRILLA, REGIONAL AND PERIPHERAL CINEMA
13 Rethinking Subaltern "Modernities:" El Cine Chonero Popular, 1994-2015 / Noah Zweig, 257
14 Peruvian Regional Cinema / Emilio Bustamante and Jaime Luna-Victoria, 279
15 Minor Cinemas, Major Issues: Horror Films and the Traces of the Internal Armed Conflict in Peru / Diana Cuéllar Ledesma, 303
16 Colombian Popular Cinemas: Expressions from and About Violence / Luisa González, 325
17 Images of Difference in Bolivian Cinema / Sergio Zapata, 347
