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In Issue 20.3, Livia Perez retraces the research journey that “outed” Norma Bahia Pontes (1941–2010) as a documentary filmmaker whose work was crucial to anticolonial cinema in France, the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement, and to feminist and lesbian video in the US.
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Article here: doi.org/10.1386/slac_00118_1
Drawing on a fragile, scattered archive—tucked away in closets, in the personal collections of ex-girlfriends and friends, and in institutions across Brazil, France, and the U.S.—Perez reconstructs a long-overlooked legacy in A/V history.
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¡Lee el artículo de Miguel Errazu (@m_errazu) en el número 20.3!
doi.org/10.1386/slac_00116_1
Miguel cuenta la historia de La cooperativa de cine marginal, un colectivo militante mexicano activo entre 1971 y 1975, y el papel de cooperativista Guadalupe Ferrer.
Check out @LorenaCervera's article in issue 20.3!
Lorena outlines the photographic and cinematic production of Franca Donda (1933–2017) and the two Venezuelan film collectives in which she participated.
doi.org/10.1386/slac_00117_1
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Check out Mónica Ramón Ríos’ article in issue 20.3!
Mónica revisits the legacy of the 1917 Chilean film La agonía de Arauco o el olvido de los muertos/Death Throes of Arauco or How to Forget the Dead and its Director Gabriela Bussenius (1889–1975).
doi.org/10.1386/slac_00120_1
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Fabulous conference being planned at Tulane for this December in honour of our dear Ana Lopez who we all miss. December 4, 5 and 6, Tulane University.
More information at: movingmedias.tulane.edu/
Submissions are due by July 15, 2025
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¡Vea esta reseña de nuestro reciente número! Escrito por la Dra. María Aimaretti en @MediaticoMFM, termina con un llamado a la acción, "Hagamos de nuestras investigaciones un hermoso portal del tiempo para escuchar, dialogar, aprender y multiplicar".
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Delighted to present issue 20.3 of Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas, a Special Issue entitled "Guerrilla Archiving: Documents for a Feminist History of Latin American Cinemas."
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Announcing 19.3, a special issue on Mobilizing Affect in Spanish film and screen media from the Great Recession to the present, ed. Bryan Cameron
Read the special issue's introduction (free!) here: doi.org/10.1386/slac_00091_2
QEPD Carlos Saura - recommending today Stuart Davis's "The time of the (orphan)" that reads Cría cuervos (Saura, 1976) alongside Catalan film Estiu 1993 (Carla Simón, 2017)
doi.org/10.1386/slac_00014_1
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Anyone else starting syllabi? Consider including work from the latest SLAC 18.3:
• @devorahshawa on Central American/Mexican migration films (SIN NOMBRE, LA JAULA DE ORO) via political theory
• @josediazza on Building Muxeninity in 3 docs via queer theory
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Shaw: "The Right to Rights and Central American/Mexican migration films" - doi.org/10.1386/slac_00056_1
Diaz Zanelli: "Building Muxeninity: Identity, gender/native performance and family in three documentaries" - doi.org/10.1386/slac_00057_1
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Here's a link to the SLAC Extras page that @AnaLopez1956 plugged: slacextras.com/18-3/
Trust us, you don't want to miss these PEMEX didactic melodramas!
✨ Excited to announce that Issue 18.3 with Special Dossier: New Approaches to Mexican 🇲🇽 Cinema, edited by @adepinedafranco (with contributions from @thomas_matusiak @TormosEdgardo @occosentino @c4noff) is now available!
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Happening TODAY (Tues. April 5) at 3P CDT / 2P 🇲🇽
Get a sneak preview of soon-to-be-published Special Dossier 18.3!
bit.ly/Mexican-Cinema
New Approaches to Mexican Cinema
Join us on Tuesday, April 5 | 3:00pm CDT \ 2:00pm 🇲🇽
Livestream: facebook.com/events/10888400…
Don't miss this roundtable on Mexican 🇲🇽🎞️ Cinema that draws from our special dossier in issue 18.3!
New Approaches to Mexican Cinema
Join us on Tuesday, April 5 | 3:00pm CDT \ 2:00pm 🇲🇽
Livestream: facebook.com/events/10888400…
A special 🇪🇸 edition of #theTuesdayReview
Check out reviews of the latest books on Spanish Cinema in SLAC 18.2: THE SPANISH QUINQUI FILM (@SusaLarson), THE TWO CINES CON NIÑO (@rachbeanz), & THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF FRANCOIST KITSCH CINEMA (@scotlandspain)
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Mark your calendar!
Contributors to the Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas Special Dossier 18.3 will discuss New Approaches to Mexican Cinema on April 5, 3PM CDT
bit.ly/Mexican-Cinema
Colleagues,
Please join us #llilasbenson on April 5 to celebrate the publication of New Approaches in Mexican Cinema in SLAC. Thank you to the amazing contributors. Here is the link to the dossier slacextras.com/18-3/
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In 18.2, check out Susanne Hackett’s award-winning (@scmsLatinx) essay on DE CIERTA MANERA, which reads the classic Cuban film in the context of Afro-Cuban patakí (myth)
doi.org/10.1386/slac_00046_1
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In 18.2, Walfrido Dorta reads CORAZÓN CUBANO (Valdés, 2014) as “an example of amateur, alternative and informal media within the Paquete [Semanal]”; a must read article for Cuban media scholars & those interested in exploitation cinema & narcocinema.
find it through your library, or log-in directly here: doi.org/10.1386/slac_00043_1
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#theTuesdayReview - CIUDAD Y FANTASMAGORÍA, Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2019; "Rueda's book stands out for discerning and thorough analyses of contemporary Latin American urban films," largely through the framework of Walter Benjamin
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Scholars of Argentine cinema: have you read Nicolás Suárez’s “Del mito gaucho al mito peronista: la decadencia del cine criollista en La cabalgata del circo (Soffici 1945)” in 18.2?
Suárez spills the tea 🍵 on Eva Duarte v. Libertad Lamarque doi.org/10.1386/slac_00042_1