Research Catalog

Title

Violence in Argentine literature and film (1989-2005) / edited by Carolina Rocha and Elizabeth Montes Garcés.

Publication

Calgary : University of Calgary Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Montes Garcés, Elizabeth, 1962-
• Rocha, Carolina

Description

xxxiii, 251 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Applying a variety of critical approaches, the contributors explore violence in Argentine cultural productions as it relates to four broad themes: the body as site of physical violence, the legacies of Argentina's authoritarian past, the collapse of the myth of the Argentine nation, and the current battles over how to define particular "social and geographical places" in the context of an increasingly violent society"--Jacket.

Series Statement

Latin American and Caribbean series, no. 8

Subject

• Argentine literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Argentine literature > History and criticism
• Cinéma > Argentine
• Cinéma > Aspect politique > Argentine
• Cinéma > Aspect social > Argentine
• Literature and society > Argentina
• Littérature argentine > Histoire et critique
• Littérature et société > Argentine
• Motion pictures > Argentina
• Motion pictures > Political aspects > Argentina
• Motion pictures > Social aspects > Argentina
• Politics and literature > Argentina
• Politique et littérature > Argentine
• Violence au cinéma
• Violence dans la littérature
• Violence in literature
• Violence in motion pictures

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The legacy of the military years. Torture and abuse as a national art form : Gustavo Nielsen's Auschwitz / Fernando Reati ; Subjection and injury in El vuelo de la reina by Tomás Eloy Martínez / Myriam Osorio ; Desire and violence in Ana María Shua's La muerte como efecto secundario / Elizabeth Montes Garcés ; Violence and representation : postdictatorship visions in Lita Stantic and Albertina Carri / Ana Forcinito -- Paradise lost. Barbaric spectacles : masculinities in crisis in popular Argentine cinema of the 1990s / Carolina Rocha ; Far from heaven : on El cielito, by María Victoria Menis / Gabriela Copertari ; An Argentine context : civilization and barbarism in El aura and El custodio / Beatriz Urraca -- The re-signification of social and geographical spaces. Postnational boundaries in Bolivia / Ignacio López-Vicuña ; Contesting spaces, contesting discourses in Bolivia, by Adrián Caetano / Natalia Jackovkis ; The violence of the site / Zulema Moret ; Projecting Buenos Aires back to the future : violence in Argentine post-dictatorship science fiction film / Victoria Ruétalo.

ISBN

• 9781552385043
• 1552385043

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library