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New Argentine Cinema
Jens Andermann
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Description for New Argentine Cinema
Paperback. In combining close comparative analyses with a review of the changing models of production, editing, actorship and location, Andermann uncovers the ways in which Argentine films have managed to construct a complex, multilayered account of their own present, as shot through - or 'perforated' - by the still unresolved legacies of the past. Series: Tauris World Cinema Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 26 bw integrated illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; APF; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
Argentine filmmaking from the mid-1990s to the present has enjoyed worldwide success. New Argentine Cinema explores this cinema in order to discover the elements that have made for this success, in relation to the country's profound political, social and cultural crisis during the same period. Jens Andermann shows how the most recent wave of films differs markedly from the Argentine cinema of the preceding decade, following the end of the dictatorship in 1983. Studying films by Lisandro Alonso, Albertina Carri, Lucrecia Martel, Raul Perrone, Martin Rejtman, and Pablo Trapero, among others, he identifies a shift in aesthetic sensibilities between these ... Read more
Argentine filmmaking from the mid-1990s to the present has enjoyed worldwide success. New Argentine Cinema explores this cinema in order to discover the elements that have made for this success, in relation to the country's profound political, social and cultural crisis during the same period. Jens Andermann shows how the most recent wave of films differs markedly from the Argentine cinema of the preceding decade, following the end of the dictatorship in 1983. Studying films by Lisandro Alonso, Albertina Carri, Lucrecia Martel, Raul Perrone, Martin Rejtman, and Pablo Trapero, among others, he identifies a shift in aesthetic sensibilities between these ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Tauris World Cinema Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848854635
SKU
V9781848854635
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About Jens Andermann
Jens Andermann is Professor of Latin American and Luso-Brazilian Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London and an editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. He has published widely on Latin American visual, literary and material culture, including the books The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil (2007) and Mapas de poder: Una ... Read more
Reviews for New Argentine Cinema
'This is scholarship of a very high quality. Andermann picks his way judiciously through existing critical work but never fails to impress with his own lively and attentive readings.' - Joanna Page, author of Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema; 'If you want to know why Argentine cinema over the past 15 years has proved so vibrant ... Read more