Comedy Circulates Circuitously
Comedy Circulates Circuitously
Toward an Odographic Film History of Latin America
This examines the international production and distribution networks in Latin America in order to argue for the cinemas of the Golden Age period beyond national frameworks. The identification of networks of film and media exchange prior to the 1960s challenges the diffusionist and center/periphery models that overdetermine understandings of cinema in the period. This chapter considers the circulation of/in Mexican, Argentine, and Brazilian comedies in order to engage with the concept of circulation in multiple ways, relating film as narrative, film as commodity, and film as spatial practice or architectonics. Circulation invites us to ask why do certain things travel? How quickly? How far? How long? This would mean writing a film history that considers how the circulation of cultural forms and the forms of circulation produce the region in an odographic turn. The unevenness and variability of intra-continental distribution mock classicism, not in necessarily a resistant practice in the mold of European modernism but through a different form of territorialization dictated by the horizon of reception. This (de)territorialization occurs courtesy of techniques that control or reconfigure time and space, that is, techniques of circulation.
Keywords: distribution, circulation, odography, intra-continental, reception, territorialization
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