This is the first English-language book to provide a critical panorama of the last twenty years of Peruvian cinema. Through analysis of the nations diverse modes of filmmaking, it offers an insight into how global debates around cinema are played out on and off screen in a distinctive national context.

The insertion of post-conflict Peru within neoliberalism resulted in widespread commodification of all areas of life, significantly impacting cinema culture. Consequently, the principal structural concept of this collection is the interplay between film production and market forces, an interaction which makes dynamism and instability the defining features of 21st-century Peruvian cinema.

Cynthia Vich is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Film at Fordham University, New York, USA.

 Sarah Barrow is Professor of Film and Media at University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

1. Introduction.- 2. Perus 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 inBullying 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 MarketingLa Casa Rosada.- 7. In Search of an Audience: Cinema of Northern Peru, the Case of Omar Forero.- 8. Wiñaypachaby Oscar Catacora: OvercomingIndigenismo through Intimacy and Slowness.- 9. The Promise of Authenticity: Doing and Undoing the Cinematic Tourist Gaze in Claudia Llosas 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 tardeandLa 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 Limas Film Bubble: Women in the Contemporary Nonfiction Filmic Scene in Peru.- 18. Epilogue.