New Trends in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema

New Trends in Argentine and Brazilian CinemaAs part of a raft of neoliberal economic reforms in the early 1990s, Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello and Argentine president Carlos Menem eliminated long standing state financial support for cinema. National film production, distribution and exhibition were deeply affected by the absence of the entire structure and legislation on which they had relied for decades. By the mid 1990s, however, new laws were passed reestablishing subsidies

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The Audience Experience identifies a momentous change in what it means to be part of an audience for a live arts performance

The Hammerstone is a comedy about two professors aging gracelessly

including media representation of minorities

such a pleasant flood of e-mail that another was written

examines the environments that made them

Long before a politician opens his mouth to speak in public

Kelin II raise fundamental questions about the complex functions of the teaching artist in school

her collection of tales

and some of the most widely celebrated and lesser-known Italian films of the post-war period

In this age of the Internet

The authors introduce the concept of artists as context providers – people who establish networks of information in a highly collaborative creative process