Affectual erasure : representations of indigenous peoples in Argentine cinema /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tompkins, Cynthia, 1958- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]
Series:SUNY series in Latin American cinema.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Early cinema 1896-1932. Melodrama and avant-la-lettre documentary in Alcides Greca's El último malón (the last "Indian" raid, 1917)
  • Kitsch and exoticism in Nelo Cosimi's La quena de la muerte (Death kena, 1929)
  • Classical cinema 1933-1956. Femme fatale in Luis Belisario García Villar's Frontera sur (Southern border,1943)
  • Betrayal and insanity in Lucas Demare's El último perro (The last one standing, 1956)
  • Modernity and auteur cinema 1957-1983. The shifting meanings of translation in Lautaro Murúa's Shunko (1960)
  • Transculturation in Jorge Prelorán's Hermógenes cayo (1967)
  • Cinema in democracy 1983-93. Fatal kindness in Raúl Tosso's Gerónima (1986)
  • Bewitched mirror images in Edgardo Cozarinsky's Guerreros y cautivas (Warriors and captives, 1989)
  • Contemporary period: 1993-2017. The power of the word in Philip Cox and Valeria Mapelman Mbyá: Tierra en rojo (We are the Indians, 2005)
  • State terrorism in Valeria Mapelman's Octubre pilagá (Pilaga October, 2010)
  • Life as a specimen: Alejandro Fernández Mouján's Damiana kryygi (2015)
  • Clashing ideologies, denunciation, and reparation in Ulise de la Orden's Tierra adentro (inland, 2011)
  • Silence and isolation in Mathieu Orcel's Para los pobres piedras (Stones for the poor, 2013)
  • Immersion and metamorphosis in Inés de Oliveira Cézar Cassandra (2012)
  • The power of constelations in Sebastián Lingiardi's Las pistas-Lanhoyij-Nmitaxanaxac (Clues-Lanhoyij- Nmitaxanaxac, 2010)
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: political map of Agentina.