Catherine L Benamou
Biographic Data
| ID | 710103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine L Benamou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine L |
| FAMILY NAME | Benamou |
| SIGNATURE | BENAMOU C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spanish-Language Television and Diaspora in Detroit and Los Angeles
Spanish-language media have often been portrayed as catering to a “niche” market, because of presumed ethnic specificity and issues of linguistic proficiency and preference. Constructed as such, these media are seldom considered in the mainstream as having an impact on social incorporation, and media and opinions in the larger U.S. public sphere. Based on field research conducted in Detroit and Los Angeles, this article challenges such notions, s…
(Dis)Affection and Recognition in Millennial Urban Melodrama
This essay explores new directions taken by urban social melodrama directed by women in Brazil, Mexico, Iran, and Switzerland at the turn of the 21st century, a period marked by the sudden state divestment of film agencies and distribution (in Brazil and Mexico), coupled with economic instability, political scandals, and attempts at reform. Each of these countries continues to host a robust art cinema in which serious questions are posed regardin…
La Tristeza de los Tigres y los Misterios de Raúl Ruiz - by Cortínez, Verónica and Engelbert, Manfred
Screening Neoliberalism
The product of cinephilic passion and impressive erudition, well argued and comprehensive in scope, this book may well be the definitive critical study in English of Mexican cinema at the turn of the new millennium. In several ways, the book picks up where other recent texts addressing contemporary Mexican cinema leave off. Covering filmmaking activity over four presidential sexenios (from Carlos Salinas de Gortari to Felipe Calderón), the analys…
Remembering “Punto de Vista
Cuban Cinema
In Cuban director Tomis Gutidrrez Alea's film Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), there is a brief scene in which a panel of male, erudite, and middle-class-looking Latin American writers are discussing the role of the intellectual in Latin American society, only to be interrupted by an anonymous member of the audience (North American playwright Jack Gelber). Why, he demands, if they are so revolutionary, do they not allow for a more active enga…
Things Fall Apart
Essay| January 01 1990 Things Fall Apart: An Interview With Sergio Bianchi Coco Fusco, Coco Fusco Coco Fusco is a New York-based writer and curator. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Catherine Benamou Catherine Benamou Catherine Benamou is a film researcher and lecturer specializing in Latin American cinema and video. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1990…
An interview with Gayatri Spivak
(1990). An interview with Gayatri Spivak. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 80-92
An interview with Gayatri Spivak
(1990). An interview with Gayatri Spivak. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 80-92
Spanish-Language Television and Diaspora in Detroit and Los Angeles
Spanish-language media have often been portrayed as catering to a “niche” market, because of presumed ethnic specificity and issues of linguistic proficiency and preference. Constructed as such, these media are seldom considered in the mainstream as having an impact on social incorporation, and media and opinions in the larger U.S. public sphere. Based on field research conducted in Detroit and Los Angeles, this article challenges such notions, s…
Cuban Cinema
In Cuban director Tomis Gutidrrez Alea's film Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), there is a brief scene in which a panel of male, erudite, and middle-class-looking Latin American writers are discussing the role of the intellectual in Latin American society, only to be interrupted by an anonymous member of the audience (North American playwright Jack Gelber). Why, he demands, if they are so revolutionary, do they not allow for a more active enga…
Things Fall Apart
Essay| January 01 1990 Things Fall Apart: An Interview With Sergio Bianchi Coco Fusco, Coco Fusco Coco Fusco is a New York-based writer and curator. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Catherine Benamou Catherine Benamou Catherine Benamou is a film researcher and lecturer specializing in Latin American cinema and video. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1990…
An interview with Gayatri Spivak
(1990). An interview with Gayatri Spivak. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 80-92
Cuban Cinema
In Cuban director Tomis Gutidrrez Alea's film Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), there is a brief scene in which a panel of male, erudite, and middle-class-looking Latin American writers are discussing the role of the intellectual in Latin American society, only to be interrupted by an anonymous member of the audience (North American playwright Jack Gelber). Why, he demands, if they are so revolutionary, do they not allow for a more active enga…
Remembering “Punto de Vista
Screening Neoliberalism
The product of cinephilic passion and impressive erudition, well argued and comprehensive in scope, this book may well be the definitive critical study in English of Mexican cinema at the turn of the new millennium. In several ways, the book picks up where other recent texts addressing contemporary Mexican cinema leave off. Covering filmmaking activity over four presidential sexenios (from Carlos Salinas de Gortari to Felipe Calderón), the analys…
(Dis)Affection and Recognition in Millennial Urban Melodrama
This essay explores new directions taken by urban social melodrama directed by women in Brazil, Mexico, Iran, and Switzerland at the turn of the 21st century, a period marked by the sudden state divestment of film agencies and distribution (in Brazil and Mexico), coupled with economic instability, political scandals, and attempts at reform. Each of these countries continues to host a robust art cinema in which serious questions are posed regardin…
La Tristeza de los Tigres y los Misterios de Raúl Ruiz - by Cortínez, Verónica and Engelbert, Manfred
Spanish-Language Television and Diaspora in Detroit and Los Angeles
Spanish-language media have often been portrayed as catering to a “niche” market, because of presumed ethnic specificity and issues of linguistic proficiency and preference. Constructed as such, these media are seldom considered in the mainstream as having an impact on social incorporation, and media and opinions in the larger U.S. public sphere. Based on field research conducted in Detroit and Los Angeles, this article challenges such notions, s…
Art (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Movie theater (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)