New Transnationalisms In Contemporary Latin American Cinemas

In the late 1990s and early 2000s Latin American films like Amores Perros, Y Tu Mamá También and Cidade de Deus enjoyed an unprecedented level of critical and commercial success in the world market. Benefitting from external financial and/or creative input, these films were considered examples of transnational cinema. This book examines these transnational films and the subsequent wave of commercially successful 'deterritorialised' films by the same directors through a textual analysis of six filmmakers. It argues that films produced within the structures of the United States film industry may have been commercially successful but are not necessarily apolitical or totally divorced from key notions of national or continental identity.