"Writing National Cinema traces the twenty-year history of the Peruvian film journal Hablemos de cine alongside that of Peruvian filmmaking and film culture. Similar to the influential French journal Cahiers du cinéma, Hablemos de cine began with a group of young critics interested in claiming the
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director’s use of mise-en-scène as the exclusive method of film analysis rather than thematic or star-oriented topics - hence, the title of the publication, derived from their battle cry at post-screening discussions: “Let’s talk about film.” Their critical authority grew with the rise of local filmmaking and the nationalist fervor of the late 1960s and early 1970s. When government sponsorship spurred feature filmmaking in the mid-1970s, their perspective eschewed the politically militant readings that characterized most writing and film from the rest of Latin America at the time. By the 1980s, the critics at Hablemos de cine had helped to engender a commercial, Hollywood-influenced cinematic vision-best exemplified by Peruvian auteur Francisco Lombardi-and stimulated a unique, if isolating, national identity through film." (Publisher description)
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"[...] designed to acquaint the student, researcher, librarian and anyone interested in motion pictures and television with the important English-language reference works in these fields." (Introduction) Fisher has indeed accomplished this. The 731 carefully selected and comprehensively annotated en
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tries of resources include bibliographic guides; dictionaries and encyclopedias; indexes, abstracts and databases; biographies and credits; film reviews and television programming; catalogs; directories and yearbooks; filmographies and videographies; bibliographies; handbooks and miscellaneous sources; core periodicals; research centers and archives; and societies and associations. Emphasis is on the U.S., but some publications from England, Canada and Australia are included. As a general rule each entry contains author/s, title, place of publication, pagination, date and, where available, Library of Congress and ISSN or ISBN information. An appendix gives database service suppliers, with addresses and telephone numbers. Author/title and subject indexes. This is an essential sourcebook." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1649)
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