The Question of Class in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

The Question of Class in Contemporary Latin American Cinema responds to the renewed interest in class by examining the aesthetics and politics of class in a representative selection of films from the contemporary cinemas of Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. It explores the relationship of cinematic practices to conflicting socio-political transformations taking place in these five countries, such as the intensification of neoliberalism, the turn to the left, and the growth of the middle classes in the period from 2003 to 2015. The combined textual and industrial analyses of films through the lens of class allows for a contextualization of the trend of depoliticization in Latin American film and the observation of its limitations.