In Issue 20.3, Livia Perez retraces the research journey that “outed” Norma Bahia Pontes (1941–2010) as a documentary filmmaker whose work was crucial to anticolonial cinema in France, the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement, and to feminist and lesbian video in the US.
Article here: doi.org/10.1386/slac_00118_1
Drawing on a fragile, scattered archive—tucked away in closets, in the personal collections of ex-girlfriends and friends, and in institutions across Brazil, France, and the U.S.—Perez reconstructs a long-overlooked legacy in A/V history.
¡Lee el artículo de Miguel Errazu (@m_errazu) en el número 20.3!
doi.org/10.1386/slac_00116_1
Miguel cuenta la historia de La cooperativa de cine marginal, un colectivo militante mexicano activo entre 1971 y 1975, y el papel de cooperativista Guadalupe Ferrer.
Check out @LorenaCervera's article in issue 20.3!
Lorena outlines the photographic and cinematic production of Franca Donda (1933–2017) and the two Venezuelan film collectives in which she participated.
doi.org/10.1386/slac_00117_1
Check out Mónica Ramón Ríos’ article in issue 20.3!
Mónica revisits the legacy of the 1917 Chilean film La agonía de Arauco o el olvido de los muertos/Death Throes of Arauco or How to Forget the Dead and its Director Gabriela Bussenius (1889–1975).
doi.org/10.1386/slac_00120_1
Fabulous conference being planned at Tulane for this December in honour of our dear Ana Lopez who we all miss. December 4, 5 and 6, Tulane University.
More information at: movingmedias.tulane.edu/
Submissions are due by July 15, 2025
¡Vea esta reseña de nuestro reciente número! Escrito por la Dra. María Aimaretti en @MediaticoMFM, termina con un llamado a la acción, "Hagamos de nuestras investigaciones un hermoso portal del tiempo para escuchar, dialogar, aprender y multiplicar".
reframe.sussex.ac.uk/mediati…
Delighted to present issue 20.3 of Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas, a Special Issue entitled "Guerrilla Archiving: Documents for a Feminist History of Latin American Cinemas."
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Featuring an introduction by Special Issue Editors Isabel Segui, Nina Tedesco and Elizabeth Ramirez-Soto.
Ana Lopez the co-editor of this issue gets a heartfelt shout out. We miss you Ana!
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Just published in @StudiesinSLAC! My new article about psychoanalysis and cinema in Argentina, exploring what the therapy session has to tell us about the middle-class subject and its ambivalent stance toward social change: doi.org/10.1386/slac_00105_1
Announcing 19.3, a special issue on Mobilizing Affect in Spanish film and screen media from the Great Recession to the present, ed. Bryan Cameron
Read the special issue's introduction (free!) here: doi.org/10.1386/slac_00091_2
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A Celebration of “Ana M. López: Essays”
12th May 1pm CST
Zoom: Registration tulane.zoom.us/meeting/regis…
1:00 Opening Remarks
1:20 López and Latin American Film Studies
3 BREAK
3:15 Lopez’s Work in the Classroom
4:30 Reception
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Ana M Lopez: Essays (SUNY) spotted at #SCMS23 by @occosentino
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My review of Deborah Martin's wonderful book, The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema, is now online: tinyurl.com/4hb8w35m via @StudiesinSLAC 📚
QEPD Carlos Saura - recommending today Stuart Davis's "The time of the (orphan)" that reads Cría cuervos (Saura, 1976) alongside Catalan film Estiu 1993 (Carla Simón, 2017)
doi.org/10.1386/slac_00014_1
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Nos complace mucho presentar el cineasta mexicano Alejandro Pelayo Rangel. Evento presencial y disponible por livestream. Abierto al público y sin costo. @CinetecaMexico @ConsulMexAtn @LatinostudiesUT @UTRTF @UTSpanish @adepinedafranco @utaustin @UTexasGlobal @cinelasamericas


















