Key Issues and Debates in Ibero-American Film: Film Form and the Location of Culture
Braun, Harald and Lisa Vollendorf, Theorizing the Ibero-American Atlantic (Leiden: Brill, 2013)
Durovicova, Natasa and Kathleen Newman. World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives, NY: Routledge, 2009.
Ezra, Elizabeth and Terry Rowden. Transnational Cinema. The Film Reader, NY: Routledge, 2006.
Hill, John and Pamela Church Gilbson. World Cinema. Critical Approaches, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.
Hjort, Mette and Scott Mackenzie. 2000. Cinema and Nation. London: Routledge.
Kantaris, Geoffrey, "Dereferencing the Real: Documentary Mediascapes in the Films of Carlos Marcovich (¿Quién diablos es Juliette? and Cuatro labios)", in Miriam Haddu and Joanna Page, eds., (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 219-36.
Willemen, Paul. ‘For a Comparative Film Analysis,’ Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2006: 98-112.
Topic 1: New Film Technologies in the Ibero American World
Cánovas, Belchí, J., "Cultura popular e identidad nacional en el cine español mudo de los años veinte," in Berthier, N. and Seguin, J.-C. (eds.) Cine, nación y nacionalidades en España. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2007: 25-36.
Charney, Leo and Vanessa Schwarz. Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life. Berkeley: U of California P, 1996.
Doane, Mary Ann. The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, The Archive. Ƶ, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002Elsaesser, Thomas and Adam Barker. Early Cinema. Space, Frame, Narrative. London: BFI, 1990.
Elsaesser, Thomas and Adam Barker. Early Cinema. Space, Frame, Narrative. London: BFI, 1990.
Fernández Cuenca, C. Segundo de Chomón: Maestro de la fantasía y de la técnica (1871-1929). Madrid: Editora Nacional, 1972
Grieveson, Lee and Peter Kramer. The Silent Cinema Reader. London: Routledge, 2003.
López, Ana M. ‘Early Cinema and Modernity in Latin America.’ Cinema Journal 40 (1), 2000: 48-78.
Martínez Bretón, J. A. (2002), "El control cinematográfico en la evolución del mudo al sonoro." Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Online at:
Needell, Jeffrey. A Tropical Belle-époque. Ƶ: CUP, 2010.
Suárez, Juana. Critical Essays on Colombian Cinema and Culture: Cinembargo Colombia. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Topic 2: Popular Film Traditions and Genres
Bell, James (ed.). Gothic. The Dark Heart of Film (London: BFI, 2013)
Cornea, Christine. Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
Diestro-Dópido, Mar. Pan’s Labyrinth (London: BFI Film Classics, 2013)
Dimendberg, Edward, Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity (Ƶ: Harvard UP, 2004)
Evans, Peter (ed). Spanish Cinema: The Auteurist Tradition (OUP, 1999).
Heise, Ursula K. Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism. Ƶ: Ƶ University Press, 1997.
Jameson, Fredric. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. London: Verso, 2005.
Jordan, Barry and Ricky Morgan. Contemporary Spanish Cinema (Manchester Uni Press, 1998)
Martín-Barbero, Jesús, “La ciudad: entre medios y miedos”, in Ciudadanías del miedo. S. Rotker Ed.(Caracas: Nueva Sociedad, 2000), pp. 29-35.
Monsiváis, Carlos, “South of the Border, Down Mexico’s Way: El cine latinoamericano y Hollywood” in Aires de familia: cultura y sociedad en América Latina (Barcelona: Anagrama, 2000), pp. 51-78
O’Bryen, Rory, “Urban Perspectives: Earthquakes and Landslides” in Literature, Testimony, Cinema in Contemporary Colombian Culture: Spectres of La Violencia (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2008), p.157-182
Slusser, George Edgar and Eric S. Rabkin, eds. Shadows of the Magic Lamp: Fantasy and Science Fiction in Film. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985.
Suárez, Juana, “Decentering the Centro: Film Noir and the Metamorphosis of Bogotá” in Cinembargo Colombia: Critical Essays on Colombian Cinema and Culture London: Palgrave, 2012, pp. 121-140
Triana Toribio, Nuria. Spanish National Cinema (Routledge, 2003)
Topic 3:Film, Modernism and the Avant-Garde
Adamowicz, Elza. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010.
Eagleton, Terry. “Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism”. Against the Grain: Essays 1975-1985. London: Verso, 1986. 131-47.
Elder, Bruce, “Deception as aggression: Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel's Un chien Andalou.” Disguise, deception, trompe-l'oeil: interdisciplinary perspectives, edited by Leslie Boldt-Irons et al. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 207-230.
Evans, Peter. The films of Luis Buñuel: subjectivity and desire. Oxford: Clarendon, 1995.
Heredero, Carlos, Iván Zulueta: La vanguardia frente al espejo. Alcalá de Henares: Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares, 1989
Johnson, Randal and Robert Stam. Brazilian Cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Mira, Alberto,’ The Dark Heart of the Movida: Vampire Fantasies in Iván Zulueta’s Arrebato,’ Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 13 (2009): 155-169
Sánchez-Biosca, Vicente, ‘Arrebato/Rapture: Iván Zulueta, Spain, 1980,’ in Mira, Alberto, ed. The Cinema of Spain and Portugal. London: Wallflower Press, 2005: 169-177
Williams, Linda Figures of desire: a theory and analysis of surrealist film. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Xavier, Ismail. Allegories of Underdevelopment. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Topic 4: War and Revolution on Film
Anos de Abril - Cinema Português da Revolução. IPC - 2ª Ed. 1974-1982.
‘Capitaines d'avril,’ Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire, No. 73 (Jan. - Mar., 2002), 193-196.
Antunes, João and Matos-Cruz. José de, Cinema Português 1896–1998 (Lusomundo, Lisbon, Portugal, 1997).
Bandeira, José Gomes. Porto: 100 anos de cinema português (Câmara Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal, 1996).
Bartlet, Oliver, African Cinema. Decolonizing the Gaze, London: Zed Books, 2000
Diawara, Manthia, African Cinema: Politics and Culture, NY: John Wiley, 1992
Downing, John D.H. Film & Politics in the Third World. New York: Autonomedia
Lins, Consuelo and Cláudia Mesquita, Filmar o real [Kindle Edition]
Matos-Cruzm José and João Antunes. O Cinema Português: 1896 – 1998 (Lisbon: Lusomundo Editores, 1998).
Mira, Alberto. The Cinema of Spain and Portugal (Wallflower, 2005)
Nobre, Roberto. Singularidades do Cinema Português (Lisbon: Portugália Editora).
Pina, Luís de. Documentarismo Português (Instituto Português de Cinema, 1977).
Ramos, Jorge Leitão (Dicionário do Cinema Português 1895-1961)
Weiss, Peter. The Aesthetics of Resistance (Duke University Press, 2005)
Topic 5: Dictatorship and Postdictatorship
Benjamin, Walter, “Theses on the Philosophy of History”. Illuminations. London: Pimlico, 1999. 245-55.
Bentes, Ivana, “Multiculturalism, Cinematic Sensation and Theoretical Devices” in CarlosBassualdo (Ed.)Tropicalia: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture (Barbican, 2006): 99-128
D’Lugo, Marvin. Carlos Saura: The Practice of Seeing (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991)
Garibotto, Verónica. “Iconic Fictions: Narrating Recent Argentine History in Post-2000 Second-Generation Films.” Studies in Hispanic Cinemas. 8.2 (March 2012), 175-188
Hirsch, Marianne, The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust. Columbia University Press, 2012.
Johnson Randal and Robert Stam Eds. Brazilian Cinema, New York: Columbia University Press, 1996: 149-162
Kantaris, Geoffrey, “Last Snapshots /Take 2: Personal and Collective Shipwrecks in Argentine Cinema of the 1990s”. In Richard Young and Amanda Holmes, eds.,Cultures of the City: Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. 31-45.
Lazzara, Michael J. “Remembering Revolution after Ruin and Genocide: Recent Chilean Documentary Films and the Writing of History.” In Film and Genocide, ed. Kristi M. Wilson and Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli, 67-86. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.
Ros, Ana. The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay: Collective Memory and Cultural Production. London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Schwarz, Roberto, “Culture and Politics in Brazil, 1964-1968” in Misplaced Ideas. Trans and Edited by John Gledson, London: Verso, 1991, pp. 126-159
Stam, Robert, “From Auto critique to Anthropophagy, 1964-1971,” Tropical Multiculturalism. A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema, Durham: Duke University Press, 1997: 233-257
Traverso, Antonio. “Nostalgia, Memory, and Politics in Chilean Documentaries of Return.” In Patricia Swier and Riordan-Goncalves, Julia, eds. Dictatorships in the Hispanic World: Transatlantic and Transnational Perspectives, 49-78. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013.
Xavier, Ismail, Allegories of Underdevelopment.Aesthetics and Politics in Brazilian Cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997, pp. 57-95
Topic 6: Transnational/ Postnational
Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press)
Apter, Emily. 1999. Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press)
Burnett, Ron, Video: The politics of Culture and Community, in Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices, Ed. Michael Renov and Erika Suderburg, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Frota, Monica, Taking Aim: The Video Technology of Cultural Resistance’ in Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices, Ed. Michael Renov and Erika Suderburg, Minenapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
García Canclini, Néstor. “Remaking Passports: Visual Thought in the Debate on Multiculturalism,” The Visual Culture Reader: Second Edition, edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff (London and New York: Routledge), 180-189
Ginsburg, Faye. "Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village?" Cultural Anthropology, 1991, 6(1): 92–112.
Hockings, Paul, ed. Principles of Visual Anthropology. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.
Loizos, Peter. Innovation in Ethnographic Film: From Innocence to Self-Consciousness, 1955-1985. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
MacDougall, David. Transcultural Cinema. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Naficy, Hamid. 2001. An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press)
Prelorán, Jorge. El cine etnobiográfico. Buenos Aires: Universidad del Cine, 2006.
Pinazza, Natalia. 2012. “Diaspora and National Identity in Daniel Burman’s El abrazo partido,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 12:3, 437-448
Rocha, Carolina. 2010. “Jewish Cinematic Self-representations in Contemporary Argentine and Brazilian Film,” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 9:1, 37–48.
Stock, Ann M. 2006. “Migrancy and the Latin American Cinemascape: Towards a Post National Critical Praxis,” in Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader, edited by Elizabeth Ezra, and Terry Rowden (London: Routledge), 157–65