Författare: Laura M. Martins

Laura M. Martins is Associate Professor of Latin American and Film Studies at Louisiana State University, USA. She has published widely on Luis Buñuel”s films and Latin American visual and literary culture, including her book En primer plano: Literatura y cine en Argentina, 1955–1969 (2001). Her works have appeared internationally in Estudios interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, Luis Buñuel: New Readings (The British Film Institute), Revista Iberoamericana; Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (RCLL); and Cine y derechos humanos (Instituto Multimedia DerHumALC-Buenos Aires), among other journals and edited volumes. Her work in progress includes a book-length manuscript on the effects of the application of neo-liberal policies in Latin America and how photography, films, art installations, memorials, and literary texts manage to construct a multi-layered account of the last twenty-five years.