Violence in Argentine literature and film (1989-2005)
By: edited by Carolina Rocha and Elizabeth Montes Garcés
Series: Latin American and Caribbean series -- no. 8; Latin American and Caribbean series -- no. 8.
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Calgary
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781552385043
Subjects: Motion pictures; Politics and literature; Literature and society; Violence in literature; Argentine literature; History and criticism; Violence in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The legacy of the military years.; title: Torture and abuse as a national art form :; title: Gustavo Nielsen's Auschwitz  -- Fernando Reati ;; title: Subjection and injury in El vuelo de la reina by Tomás Eloy Martínez  -- Myriam Osorio ;; title: Desire and violence in Ana María Shua's La muerte como efecto secundario  -- Elizabeth Montes Garcés ;; title: Violence and representation :; title: postdictatorship visions in Lita Stantic and Albertina Carri  -- Ana Forcinito; title: Paradise lost.; title: Barbaric spectacles :; title: masculinities in crisis in popular Argentine cinema of the 1990s  -- Carolina Rocha ;; title: Far from heaven :; title: on El cielito, by María Victoria Menis  -- Gabriela Copertari ;; title: An Argentine context :; title: civilization and barbarism in El aura and El custodio  -- Beatriz Urraca; title: The re-signification of social and geographical spaces.; title: Postnational boundaries in Bolivia  -- Ignacio López-Vicuña ;; title: Contesting spaces, contesting discourses in Bolivia, by Adrián Caetano  -- Natalia Jackovkis ;; title: The violence of the site  -- Zulema Moret ;; title: Projecting Buenos Aires back to the future :; title: violence in Argentine post-dictatorship science fiction film -- Victoria Ruétalo.