Latin American Cinema And Literature

[Maljackson]

I have recently looked into this subject and i have found it really interesting.....

Can anyone suggest any books or internet sites that might enhnance my understanding of this subject?

Latin america has very vivid, bloody and painful histories, countries such as chile suffered turbulent wars.

If anyone on this site specialises in this subject i would love to have a chat with them.

[Mortis Anarchy]

Okay, well this guy isn't from Latin America, but from Portugal...his name is Jose Saramago. He is amazing. I just discovered him a couple weeks ago. Blindess is my favorite so far. Also anything by Jorge Luis Borges(Argentina), Jose Marti(Cuba), Pedro Lembel(Chile), Gabriel Garcia Marquez(Colombia) and uhmmmm Pablo Neruda if your into poetry. Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes are both really good...both are from Mexico...YAY!:)

However, these are just writers from the regions. Many do have some books on historical backgrounds of their countries. For the most part google is great.

[Guzmán]

Being uruguayan i feel i should add something to this thread but the fact is im pretty detached from Latin American culture, i guess i could recommend the film 'Whisky' by Revella and Stohl, two uruguayan filmakers, which has enjoyed a bit of success internationally (i think it won some prize at Cannes or something of the sort) although i didnt like it. As far as literature is concerned Borges has already been recommended (im not very fond of him, i find him a bit snobbish and pretentious) so i'll add Julio Cortazar, an Argentinian writer. His short stories are pretty good, among my favorite are "Continuidad de los parques" and "Carretera del Sur" i think. His novel "Rayuela" is pretty famous but ive never read it.

[Guzmán]

Latin america has very vivid, bloody and painful histories, countries such as chile suffered turbulent wars.
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Its too bad that in literature that often ammounts to oversesationalistic pintoresque pretentious pseudo-controversial crap. And i would know, cause ive had it fed to me throughout my whole highschool literary education...
thats not to say there aint some good things as well.

[byquist]

Black Orpheus, a film about the Rio carnival. A lot of music and dancing, plus danger.