1 option
Other worlds : new Argentinean film / Gonzalo Aguilar ; translated b Sarah Ann Wells.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.A7 A5813 2008
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aguilar, Gonzalo Moisés.
- Series:
- New concepts in Latino American cultures
- Standardized Title:
- Otros mundos. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Argentina--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Argentina.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 278 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Summary:
- Other Worlds is the most complete text to be published on the new Argentine cinema. While anchored in critical discourse and written by an academic, it also has the virtue of using clear and accessible language. In addition, the book is more than a study of cinema; in its pages, the author reflects upon the recent crisis in Argentina. In the words of Argentine critic Diego Trerotola, "the trajectory of this essay forms a vivid map of over ten years of innovation in order to understand the aesthetic work of our national cinema."
- Contents:
- 1 On the Existence of the New Argentine Cinema 7
- The One Thousand and One Ways to Make a Film 8
- Changes in Artistic Production 14
- Aesthetic Paths 15
- 2 Film, the Narration of a World 33
- Nomadism and Sedentarism 33
- Dispersion and Fixity (between La cienaga and Pizza, birra, faso) 35
- Intensities of Faces and Bodies (Rapado and Todo juntos) 48
- The Return of the Documentary 57
- The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Renouncement and Liberty in a Lisandro Alonso Movie 60
- Commodities and Experience 65
- Cinema of Remains: Lisandro Alonso's Los muertos 67
- Silvia Prieto, or Love at Thirty 74
- Sound, Track Separate 83
- La nina santa and the Closure of Performance 85
- Los guantes magicos: Noises on the Surface 92
- The Use of Genre: Trips and Detours 100
- Comedy: Speed and Chance (Tan de repente and Sabado) 101
- Pablo Trapero's El bonaerense: The Genre of Corporatism 109
- 3 A World without Narration (Political Investigation) 117
- Politics beyond the Political 117
- Goodbye to "the People" 125
- Nostalgia for Work 136
- Words That Wound: Discrimination in Bolivia 146
- Los rubios: Mourning, Frivolity, and Melancholy 155
- The Testimony of a Dissolution: On Anahi Berneri's A Year without Love 170
- Appendix 1 The World of Cinema in Argentina 183
- Appendix 2 The Policy of Actors 209
- Appendix 3 Argentine Films That Premiered between 1997 and Mid-2005 215.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0230606598
- 9780230606593
- OCLC:
- 181601098
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.