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 Looks at Argentine fiction film of the past decade (1995-2005) with a focus on its engagement with the major themes of the recent Argentine crisis: crime, money, migrations and social exclusion. 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
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.05.2009
• EAN: 9780822344728
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4472-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Duke University Press
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet