Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World

In closing, students and scholars at differing stages of their academic journeys will benefit from this volume and it is sure to be a required reference for any specialist on Chilean cinema and cultural studies. Moreover, professors and scholars studying other regions of the world (and other countries of Latin America) can also enrich their research and classes with the analysis offered by a particular section.

~Fernanda Righi

The book’s overarching focus [is] on the sometimes problematic intersections of art and global commerce in an increasingly transnational cinematic landscape. Is it even possible to have a ‘purely’ national – let alone local – cinema anymore?

~Thomas Puhr

This refreshing approach to national cinemas addresses the recent Chilean film production taking into account the tensions between the global dialogues it has established and the achievements and constraints of a local film scene. An essential overview of Chilean Cinema and the cultural, political, and economic transformations of the new century.

~Catalina Donoso Pinto, Co-Author of El Cine De Ignacio Agüero: El Documental Como La Lectura De Un Espacio and (Des)Montando Fábulas: El Documental Político De Pedro Chaskel

This volume is a long-awaited homage (in English) of the cutting edge, innovative work coming out of Chile during the past two decades. An excellent resource for everyone from faculty through undergraduates on the ways in which Chilean cinema has attracted global audiences through fresh, heterogeneous directorial voices, fierce networking on the film festival circuit, and bold marketing strategies. This volume is indispensable to those interested in contemporary Chilean cinema.

~Tamara Falicov, Author of Latin American Film Industries

Effectively navigating between the national and the transnational, this comprehensive collection offers a much-needed critical account of Chilean contemporary cinema. Unique in its scope—ranging from music videos to horror, from documentary to martial arts, from queer to 'global art' films—this book opens up exciting new lines of inquiry for the study of Chilean cinema.

~Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto, Assistant Professor, School of Cinema, San Francisco State University, and Author of (Un)Veiling Bodies: a Trajectory of Chilean Post-Dictatorship Documentary

While many film studies books deal with large film industries such as Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, there are few systematic treatments of Chilean film in English, and none that so effectively treat the question of internationalization at a crucial moment of rearticulation/reinvention of Chilean cinema.

~Ignacio López-Vicuña, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Vermont

Chilean cinema has flourished in the twenty-first century and reached global audiences, and this is an essential book to chronicle and analyze this success story. Written by experts in their field, this book provides an excellent and comprehensive critical guide.

~Deborah Shaw, Professor of Film and Screen Studies, University of Portsmouth, and Editor of Transnational Screens

Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World is an excellent and important contribution to the emerging field of Chilean film studies and to the broader one of Latin American film studies.

~Juan Poblete, University of California, Santa Cruz, Co-Editor of Humor in Latin American Cinema