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Confronting the 'Dirty War' in Argentine Cinema, 1983-1993

By Constanza Burucaa

Confronting the 'Dirty War' in Argentine Cinema, 1983-1993 Contemporary literature

Confronting the 'Dirty War' in Argentine Cinema, 1983-1993

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The systematic illegal persecution and annihilation of political opponents of the 1979-1983 Argentine military dictatorship, commonly known today as the "Dirty War", became one of the main themes of the nation's cinema after the regime's fall. In this study, while providing a detailed survey of the conditions of production of post-dictatorship Argentine cinema, the author focuses on a selected corpus of films in order to explore how issues of memory, mourning and trauma, together with questions of gender and genre representation, have been dealt with in the cinema that followed the advent of democracy in 1983. By means of a solid theoretical underpinning and the thorough textual analysis of some canonical films, such as La historia oficial and Sur, and others less well known, for example En retirada, La amiga, El acto en cuestión, the book offers new insights into contemporary Latin American cinema.
Constanza Burucúa, having completed her PhD at the University of Warwick, is an independent film producer in Caracas.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
242
Release Date:
2009-03-19
Publication Date:
2009-03-19
Publisher:
Tamesis
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1855661802
ISBN13:
9781855661806
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
531 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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