A trail of fire for political cinema : the hour of the furnaces fifty years later / edited by Javier Campo and Humberto Perez-Blanco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campo, Javier, editor.

Perez-Blanco, Humberto, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--Argentina--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect, [2019]

Summary:

Marking the 50th anniversary of the premiere of La Hora de Los Hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces) (Getino and Solanas, 1968), A Trail of Fire for Political Cinema is an edited collection that closely analyses the film, looking to the context and the socio-political landscape of 1960s Argentina, as well as the film's legacy and contemporary relevance. Attention is paid to the corpus of political documentaries made between 1968 to 1976, including those that marked the last coup d'état in Argentina, to emphasize how formal and thematic trends relate to their Argentinian social context. In order to highlight The Hour of the Furnaces's contemporary relevance as a form of politically engaged activism, the book will also look at Fernando Solanas's documentary output in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: The Place of The Hour of the Furnaces in World Cinema (and in the Political World)

Chapter 1: To Invent Our Revolution: An Aesthetic-Political Analysis of The Hour of the Furnaces

Chapter 2: Fanon and The Hour of the Furnaces

Chapter 3: A Look from Literature on Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino's The Hour of the Furnaces

Chapter 4: Popular Music and Political Militancy in The Hour of the Furnaces

Chapter 5: The Hour of the Furnaces' Sexualized History

Chapter 6: The Hour of the Furnaces, May 68, and the Pesaro International Film Festival

Chapter 7: Tracing the Winding Road of The Hour of the Furnaces in the First World

Chapter 8: Trails of Ink: An Approximation to the Historiography on The Hour of the Furnaces

Chapter 9: The Dialogue between The Hour of the Furnaces and the Tradition of Argentine Documentary

Chapter 10: Solanas' Recent Documentaries

Chapter 11: Experimenting with TV: The Hour of the Furnaces at the Crossroads of Cinematic Experimentalism and Video Art

Chapter 12: The Hour of the Furnaces as an Essay Film

Afterthoughts on The Hour of the Furnaces

Contributors

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-78320-917-8

OCLC:

1080432914