Jorge Ruffinelli

Uruguayan academic and critic (born 1943)

Jorge Enrique Ruffinelli Altesor (born 1943 in Uruguay) is a Uruguayan academic and critic.^[1]

Biography

In his youth he was a disciple of Ángel Rama and a contributor to the weekly Marcha. Later he was professor of Latin American Literature at the Universidad Veracruzana and Stanford University.^[2]

He is considered an expert in Latin American cinema and has participated as a jury in several international festivals.

Works

• La sonrisa de Gardel (Trilce, 2004)^[3]
• América Latina en 130 películas (Uqbar, 2010)
• Encyclopaedia of Latin American Cinema (work in progress)

References

1. Meeting with Jorge Ruffinelli Archived 2010-10-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
2. Prof. Jorge Ruffinelli
3. Gardel's smile (in Spanish)