Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema

<i>Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema</i> explores how contemporary films (2000-2020) participate in the evolution and circulation of images and sounds that in many ways define how indigenous communities are imagined at a local regional and global scale. The volume reviews the diversity of portrayals from a chronological geopolitical linguistic epistemic-ontological transnational and intersectional paradigm-changing and self-representational perspective allocating one chapter to each theme. The corpus of this study consists of 68 fictional features directed by non-indigenous filmmakers 31 cinematic works produced by indigenous directors/communities and 22 <i>Cine Regional</i> (Regional Cinema) films. The book also draws upon a significant number of engravings drawings paintings photographs and films produced between 1493 and 2000 as primary sources for the historical review of the visual representations of indigeneity. Through content and close (textual) analysis interviews with audiences surveys and social media posts analysis the author looks at the contexts in which Latin American films circulate in international festivals and the paradigm shifts introduced by self-representational cinema and<i> Roma </i>(Mexico 2018). Conclusively the author provides the foundations of histrionic indigeneity a theory that explains how overtly histrionic proclivities play a significant role in depictions of an imagined indigenous Other in recent films.