Abstract
ABSTRACTIn this article I examine recent (post-2000) Latin American co-productions that deal either literally or metaphorically with the issue of twenty-first-century neo-colonialism. I will concentrate my discussion on Paul Leduc's 2006 ‘network narrative’ Cobrador: In God We Trust, a six-way co-production between Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, France and the United Kingdom, but reference will also be made to Icíar Bollaín's 2010 También la lluvia/Even the Rain, a 2010 co-production (Spain/Mexico/France) set in Bolivia. The purpose of the article is, via an examination of the production contexts and close readings of two films, to consider the extent to which twenty-first-century Euro-Latin American co-productions which purport to critique neo-imperialism in the region, are contributing to a more nuanced discussion of the transnational in the context of the ‘Hispanic’ world, or whether they are simply rehashing, albeit unwittingly, old colonialist views of an essentialized and exoticized Latin America.
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