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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garibotto, Veronica, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2019]
Series:New directions in national cinemas.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Redefining testimonial cinema
  • Knowledge and feeling : testimonial documentary and fiction in the 1980s
  • Indexicality and counterhegemony : testimonial documentary in the 1990s
  • Distortion and history in post-2000 second-generation performative documentaries
  • Emotion and history in post-2000 second-generation iconic fictions
  • Afterword. From counterhegemony to hegemony.