Rethinking testimonial cinema in postdictatorship Argentina : beyond memory fatigue /
For roughly two decades after the collapse of the military regime in 1983, testimonial narrative was viewed and received as a privileged genre in Argentina. Today, however, academics and public intellectuals are experiencing 'memory fatigue,' a backlash against the concepts of memory and t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | New directions in national cinemas.
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| Summary: | For roughly two decades after the collapse of the military regime in 1983, testimonial narrative was viewed and received as a privileged genre in Argentina. Today, however, academics and public intellectuals are experiencing 'memory fatigue,' a backlash against the concepts of memory and trauma, just as memory and testimonial films have reached the center of Argentinian public discourse. In Rethinking Testimonial Cinema in Postdictatorship Argentina, Verónica Garibotto looks at the causes for this reticence and argues that, rather than discarding memory texts for their repetitive excess, it is necessary to acknowledge them and their exhaustion as discourses of the present. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 202 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-194) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253038500 0253038502 9780253038517 0253038510 |