Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema

Informationen zum Autor Joanna Page is a lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Cambridge. Klappentext There has been a significant boom in recent Argentine cinema! with an explosion in the number of films made in the country since the mid-1990s. Many of these productions have been highly acclaimed by critics in Argentina and internationally. What makes th Zusammenfassung This first in-depth English-language study of Argentine fiction films released since the mid-1990s explains how they have registered Argentinas recent experience of capitalism! neoliberalism! and economic crisis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Nation, State, and Filmmaking in Contemporary Argentina 9 2. New Argentine Cinema and the Production of Social Knowledge 34 3. Labor, Bodies, and Circulation 57 4. Crime and Capitalism in Genre Cinema 81 5. Nation, Migration, and Globalization 110 6. Memory and Subjectivity 152 7. The Politics of Private Space 180 Conclusion 195 Notes 201 Bibliography 217 Index 227

Product details

• Authors: Joanna Page, Page, Joanna Page
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.2009
• EAN: 9780822344575
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4457-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Südamerika, Amerikanische Geschichte, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, Pop Arts / Pop Culture, HISTORY / Latin America / South America