Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film

<P><I>Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film</I> offers a series of perspectives produced from a diverse array of aesthetic and theoretical approaches that build on previous studies about cinematic landscape and space while addressing it from a regional perspective. This book explores how contemporary Latin American filmmakers have included created or transformed different types of landscapes in their works. The chapters highlight the centrality of landscape as a meaningful space in film composed in addition to the image sound and movement. The core of the edited collection revolves around films where landscape emerges as a crucial element to transmit the urgency of issues affecting diverse Latin American societies. The representation of emerging social actors such as Indigenous groups Afro-Latin Americans LGBTQIA+ communities migrants environmentalists and women offers a localized view of sociocultural political and environmental challenges from marginalized and dissenting voices.</P>