Transition cinema : political filmmaking and the Argentine left since 1968 / Jessica Stites Mor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stites Mor, Jessica, author.

Series:

Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Illuminations : Cultural Formations of the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Argentina.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture industry--Political aspects--Argentina--History--20th century.

Motion picture industry.

Politics in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Transition Cinema, Jessica Stites Mor documents the critical role filmmakers, the film industry, and state regulators played in Argentina's volatile and unfinished transition from dictatorship to democracy. She shows how, during periods of both military repression and civilian rule, the state moved to control political film production and its content, distribution, and exhibition. She also reveals the strategies that the industry, independent filmmakers, and film activists employed to comply with or circumvent these regulations. Stites Mor traces three distinct generations of transition cinema, each defined by a seminal event that shifted the political economy of national filmmaking. The first generation of filmmakers witnessed and participated in civil uprisings, such as the Cordobazo in 1969, and faced waves of repression, violence, and censorship. This generation gave rise to vibrant underground exhibitions and film clubs and eventually became symbolically linked to the Peronist Left and radical militancy. Following the 1983 return to civilian rule, a second generation of political filmmakers emerged at the center of public debates, when Buenos Aires became the locus for state-level cultural programs to address human rights and collective memory. Building on that legacy, a third generation of filmmakers explored new modes of activist and political filmmaking aided by digital technology. They pioneered new genres such as the street phenomenon of cine piquetero and introduced resistance politics and social movements into highly visible public spaces. In this captivating work, Stites Mor examines how social movements, political actors, filmmakers, and government and industry institutions, all became deeply enmeshed in the project of Argentina's transition cinema. She demonstrates how film emerged as the chronicler of political struggles in a dialogue with the past, present, and future, whose message transcended both cultural and national borders.

Contents:

Introduction

The spectacle of the past. Cameras in the hands of "angry young men": filmmaking and the Cordobazo

Filmmakers into film workers: Peronism, dictatorship, and the film industry

Reimagining the left. The scene and the city: coded landscapes and collective memory in transition

Experience, representation, and reproduction: displacement and El Sur de Solanas

The mediated subject. Documentalismo: political filmmaking and social movements

Postmodern exigencies: new media, memory, and critical spaces

Conclusion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822977971

0822977974

OCLC:

830023694