Politics and performance in post-dictatorship Argentine film and theatre
By: Philippa J. Page
Series: Colección Tamesis. Serie A, Monografías -- 301; Colección Támesis -- 301.
Publisher: Tamesis
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781855662049
Subjects: Motion pictures; Politics and government; Theater; History
Description: This comparative study examines the strategies of re-politicization and socialization employed in contemporary Argentine film and theater produced in the wake of the 1976-83 dictatorship. It focuses on the socio-political facets of performance across a range of films and dramatic compositions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-182) and index.

Includes filmography: p. [170]-172.
Table of contents: title: 'Theatre[s] of cruelty' and politics of performance in the work of 'teatrista' Eduardo Pavlovsky and filmmaker Fernando E. Solanas; title: De-mythifying the postmodern 'opium of the people' : theatre and cinema versus television; title: 'Metáforas del fracaso' or 'a family romance'? : resuscitating aesthetic lineages; title: Biodramas/biography/biopolitics : projects of 'convivencia' in new Argentine cinema and theatre.