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Setting new standards in assessing how masculinity in Argentina has been represented in film, literature and music, this collection untangles Argentinian construction of masculinity, manhood and gendered difference from the nineteenth century to the present. With methodologies ranging from literary analysis of novels to historical approaches to the construction and performance of gender, these essays offer a dramatic, new multidisciplinary approach to modern Argentinian masculinity.
About the author
Carolina Rocha is professor of Spanish at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She specializes in contemporary Argentine, Uruguayan and Brazilian cinema. She is the author of Masculinities in Contemporary Argentine Popular Cinema (2012). In addition, she has coedited several volumes: Violence in Argentine Literature and Film (2010, with Elizabeth Montes Garcés), New Trends in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema (2011, with Cacilda Rêgo), Representing History, Class and Gender in Spain and Latin America: Children and Adolescents in Film (2012, with Georgia Seminet), Modern Argentine Masculinities (2013), Screening Mirrors in Latin American Cinema (2014, with Georgia Seminet) and, more recently, Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Resisting Neoliberalism? (2018, with Claudia Sandberg).
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Setting new standards in assessing how masculinity in Argentina has been represented in film, literature, and music, this collection untangles Argentine construction of masculinity, manhood, and gendered difference from the nineteenth century to the present. It offer a fresh multidisciplinary approach to modern Argentine masculinity.
