Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century

This is the first English-language book to provide a critical panorama of the last twenty years of Peruvian cinema. Through analysis of the nation's diverse modes of filmmaking, it offers an insight into how global debates around cinema are played out on and off screen in a distinctive national context.The insertion of post-conflict Peru within neoliberalism resulted in widespread commodification of all areas of life, significantly impacting cinema culture. Consequently, the principal structural concept of this collection is the interplay between film production and market forces, an interaction which makes dynamism and instability the defining features of 21st-century Peruvian cinema.

1. Introduction.- 2. Peru’s Twenty-First Century Rom-Com.- 3. Con Nariz (blanqui-) roja: Peruvian ComedyMarca Perú and¡Asu Mare!.- 4. Emilio Bustamante: Peruvian Regional Cinema: Transtextuality, Gender and Violence inBullying maldito, la historia de María Marimacha.- 5. Creativity and Perseverance in a Precarious Context: Filmmaking in Ayacucho between Artistic Vision and Lived Reality.- 6. Filming Horror in Post-conflict Peru: Making and MarketingLa Casa Rosada.- 7. In Search of an Audience: Cinema of Northern Peru, the Case of Omar Forero.- 8. Wiñaypacha by Oscar Catacora: OvercomingIndigenismo through Intimacy and Slowness.- 9. The Promise of Authenticity: Doing and Undoing the Cinematic Tourist Gaze in Claudia Llosa’s Short Films.- 10. Local Grounding, Transnational Reach: The Films of Héctor Gálvez.- 11. The Peruvian Short Film: Styles and Treatments of Memory, Politics and Violence.- 12. The Political Blockages of Peruvian Memory Cinema.- 13. Historical Memory and Cinematic Adaptations: Three Films Based on the Novels of Alonso Cueto.- 14. Do Executioners Have Souls?La última tarde andLa hora final: Representations of the “Insurgent” Character in Peruvian Fiction Cinema.- 15. No Concessions: Aesthetics and Politics in the Cinema of Eduardo Quispe Alarcón.- 16. “Toward a Cinema for Life”: The Activism of the Escuela de Cine Amazónico.- 17. Bursting Lima’s Film Bubble: Women in the Contemporary Nonfiction Filmic Scene in Peru.- 18. Epilogue.