Film Archipelago

How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema? Comprising 15 essays and a critical introduction <i>The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema</i> addresses this question by examining a series of intersections between insular spaces and filmmaking in Latin America. The volume brings together international scholars and filmmakers to consider a diverse corpus of films about islands films that take place on islands films produced in islands and films that problematise islands. <br/>The book explores a diverse range of films that extend from the Chilean documentaries of Patricio Guzmán to work on the Malvinas/Falkland Islands and films by Argentine directors Gustavo Fontán and Lucrecia Martel. Chapters focus on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) the Mexican Islas Marías and the Panamanian Caribbean; on ecocritical environmental and film historical aspects of Brazilian and Argentine river islands; and on Cuban Guadeloupean Haitian and Puerto Rican contexts.<br/><i>The Film Archipelago</i>argues that the islands and archipelagos of Latin American cinema constitute a critically interesting analytically complex and historically suggestive angle to explore issues of marginality and peripherality remoteness and isolation and fragility and dependency. As a whole the collection demonstrates to what extent the combined insular and archipelagic lens can re-frame and re-figure both longstanding and recent discussions on the spaces of Latin American cinema.