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Abstract The article examines film co-productions in Latin America within the context of globalization. It starts by exploring the political, economic, and cultural backgrounds in which they emerge, as well as their origins in the cultural exchanges between Spain and Latin America. The focus of the essay is on the latest attempts at creating an Iberian- American space free from the identity politics of the past. The international co-productions that began to capture the market during the 1990s and prevailed by the end of that decade filled the vacuum that resulted from the neoliberal dismantling of local industries. They also regained a tradition of unequal exchanges with Europe and the Unites States. Those co-productions, which dominate the Latin American audiovisual industries in the 21st century, are emblematic products of globalization: its multiple cultural referents, complex systems of transnational funding, multinational castings, teams, and locations, underscore their intercultural, migrant, and postnational condition. The result are hybrid films in which old identities melt away and mutate within global narratives that achieve a supranational nature. Both in form and content this weakening of the ties of culture to place has to be understood within the processes of deterritorialization that characterize the age of globalization.

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