SLACextras 19.2 Mediático takeover
Welcome to this SLACextras takeover of Mediático which, in the spirit of SLACextras, features additional material to accompany the print journal Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas 19.2. SLAC 19.2 was edited by Gina Herrmann (University of Oregon) and Isabel Jaén Portillo (Portland State University) and published in summer 2022. This SLACextras takeover of Mediático features some of the keynotes and presentations from Cine Lit 9 International Conference of Hispanic Film and Fiction “Cine-Lit 9,” which took place in Portland, Oregon in March 2019.
We are delighted to present the first and second featured Cine-lit post at Mediático. Firstly, an excellent essay by Barbara Zecchi, which focuses on recent films directed by young female filmmakers centred on the representation of older women. Professor and Head of the Film Studies Program at UMassAmherst, Zecchi examines the use of blur as a cinematic technique suggesting that these out-of-focus images displace what Woodward has called “the youthful structure of the gaze” and substitute it with a visuality that she define sas “preosbyoempathic”. Secondly, a thought provoking piece by Deborah Martin, which takes as its starting point B Ruby Rich’s ” ‘revisionist history’ of the male-associated New Latin American Cinema” ‘An/Other View of the New Latin American Cinema’ (1997). Professor of Latin American Film and Culture at University College, London, Martin explores the ways Rich’s ideas have emerged and are continuing to emerge in the work of contemporary scholars of Latin American women’s filmmaking and Latin American filmmakers, particularly Lucrecia Martel.
