The Poetry-Film Nexus in Latin America
Bollig, Ben / Wood, David M. J.
Filmmakers often mine novels and plays for stories and characters, but what happens when poetry appears on screen? In this edited volume, contributors explore the rich corpus of Latin American films that operate where poetry and cinema meet. Examples include the adaptation of poems to film, the characterisation of poets on screen, the role of poets as filmmakers, the concept of the 'poetic film', approaches to the 'cinema of poetry' (drawing o...