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Latin American Minor Cinema in 1970s and 1980s Sweden

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Summary, in English

The aim of the paper is to present films made by Latin American filmmakers in Sweden and which constitute a minor cinema according to David James’ definition. In the early 1980s Sweden had Europe’s largest population of people from Chile. Among these were several filmmakers, intellectuals or other who began to collaborate on film projects in Sweden. This work, with a few exceptions, has been ignored by most established national film histories. The exceptions are usually documentaries with an overtly political content, because it has been possible to subsume these in the tradition of Latin American political filmmaking. In our paper we will give an overview of the filmmakers and the films and present these diverse trajectories in order to address the question: How to frame this vibrant culture which lasted for 20 years in the history of film that in some way or another was related to Swedish territory?

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Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • Arts

Keywords

  • Accented
  • Cinema
  • Minor Cinema
  • Latin American Cinema
  • Exile
  • Filmmakers

Conference name

Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2014

Conference date

2014-03-19 - 2014-03-23

Conference place

Seattle, WA, United States

Status

Unpublished

Project

  • The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Film