Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia

Book Review| August 01 2018 Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia. By Zamorano Villarreal, Gabriela. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. Photographs. Map. Figure. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxiv, 336 pp. Cloth, $60.00. Brooke Larson Brooke Larson Stony Brook University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 569–571. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6934029 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Brooke Larson; Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 August 2018; 98 (3): 569–571. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6934029 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search Latin America's cinematic traditions have enjoyed a long lineage, although it was not until the 1960s and 1970s that its films became the object of international research, criticism, critical theory, and acclaim. Latin American filmmakers broke their isolation by forging a powerful cinematographic movement as oppositional social practice. They jostled for a place in the emerging New Latin American Cinema movement that conceived of cinema, especially documentaries, as an instrument of revolutionary polemic, political action, and social transformation.Thanks to Bolivia's deep strain of popular politics and revolutionary sensibilities, the country took pride of place in that movement. Notably, Jorge Sanjinés's provocative films chronicling Bolivia's militant mine workers under fire or tracking an Indian peasant uprising placed him at the forefront. Sanjinés not only helped redefine cinema's social purpose and aesthetics but created a new methodology to collapse the space between filmmaker,... Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press2018 Issue Section: Twentieth–Twenty-First Centuries You do not currently have access to this content

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