Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century

1. Introduction.- 2. Peru’s Twenty-First Century Rom-Com.- 3. Con Nariz (blanqui-) roja: Peruvian Comedy, Marca Perú and ¡Asu Mare!.- 4. Emilio Bustamante: Peruvian Regional Cinema: Transtextuality, Gender and Violence in Bullying maldito, la historia de María Marimacha.- 5. Creativity and Perseverance in a Precarious Context: Filmmaking in Ayacucho between Artistic Vision and Lived Reality.- 6. Filming Horror in Post-conflict Peru: Making and Marketing La Casa Rosada.- 7. In Search of an Audience: Cinema of Northern Peru, the Case of Omar Forero.- 8. Wiñaypacha by Oscar Catacora: Overcoming Indigenismo through Intimacy and Slowness.- 9. The Promise of Authenticity: Doing and Undoing the Cinematic Tourist Gaze in Claudia Llosa’s Short Films.- 10. Local Grounding, Transnational Reach: The Films of Héctor Gálvez.- 11. The Peruvian Short Film: Styles and Treatments of Memory, Politics and Violence.- 12. The Political Blockages of Peruvian Memory Cinema.- 13. Historical Memory and Cinematic Adaptations: Three Films Based on the Novels of Alonso Cueto.- 14. Do Executioners Have Souls? La última tarde and La hora final: Representations of the “Insurgent” Character in Peruvian Fiction Cinema.- 15. No Concessions: Aesthetics and Politics in the Cinema of Eduardo Quispe Alarcón.- 16. “Toward a Cinema for Life”: The Activism of the Escuela de Cine Amazónico.- 17. Bursting Lima’s Film Bubble: Women in the Contemporary Nonfiction Filmic Scene in Peru.- 18. Epilogue.