Hacia Un Cuarto Cine: Violencia, Marginalidad, Memoria Y Nuevos Escenarios Globales En Ventiún Películas Latinoamericanas
HACIA UN CUARTO CINE: VIOLENCIA, MARGINALIDAD, MEMORIA Y NUEVOS ESCENARIOS GLOBALES EN VENTIÚN PELÍCULAS LATINOAMERICANAS by Jorge Zavaleta Balarezo Bachiller en Lingüística y Literatura Hispánicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2005 Master in Arts in Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, 2008 Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures i University of Pittsburgh 2011 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH DIETRICH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES This dissertation was presented by Jorge Zavaleta Balarezo It was defended on December 7, 2011 and approved by John Beverley, Distinguished Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literatures Hermann Herlinghaus, Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literatures Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Associate Professor, Political Science Dissertation Advisors: Elizabeth Monasterios, Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literatures and Juan Duchesne-Winter, Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literatures ii HACIA UN CUARTO CINE: VIOLENCIA, MARGINALIDAD, MEMORIA Y NUEVOS ESCENARIOS GLOBALES EN VEINTIÚN PELÍCULAS LATINOAMERICANAS Jorge Zavaleta Balarezo, PhD University of Pittsburgh, 2011 Contemporary Latin American cinema features a series of realist portraits and testimonies, in which young filmmakers develop their own visions of the new conditions of life on the continent. This dissertation looks at these specific cinematic visions of beings who survive on the edges of marginality and violence. The dissertation is articulated specifically along topics representing critical approaches to movies produced in Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Mexico. The works of a new generation of filmmakers including Alejandro González Iñárritu, Lucrecia Martel, Israel Adrián Caetano, Carlos Reygadas and Fernando Meirelles uncover a series of erosions of the social composition of the countries where these directors live.
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