Confronting the 'Dirty War' in Argentine cinema, 1983-1993
Subtitle: memory and gender in historical representations
By: Constanza Burucúa.
Series: Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografias -- 271; Colección Támesis -- 271.
Publisher: Tamesis
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781855661806
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Argentina -- History; Memory in motion pictures; Gender identity in motion pictures; Argentina -- In motion pictures; Argentina -- History -- Dirty War, 1976-1983 -- Influence
Other titles: 'Dirty War' in Argentine cinema, 1983-1993
Description: "The systematic illegal persecution and annihilation of political opponents of the 1979-1983 Argentine military dictatorship, commonly known today as the 'Dirty War', became one of the main themes of the nation's cinema after the regime's fall. In this study, while providing a detailed survey of the conditions of production of post-dictatorship Argentine cinema, the author focuses on a selected corpus of films in order to explore how issues of memory, mourning and trauma, together with questions of gender and genre representation, have been dealt with in the cinema that followed the advent of democracy in 1983." "By means of a solid theoretical underpinning and the thorough textual analysis of some canonical films, such as La historia oficial and Sur, and others less well known, for example En retirada, La amiga, El acto en cuestion, the book offers new insights into contemporary Latin American cinema."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes filmography (p. [221]-223).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-220) and index.