Argentine cinema and national identity (1966-1976) /

Argentine Cinema and National Identity covers the development of Argentine cinema since the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, a period that has been understudied. This essential cultural history delves on the dialect tradition versus modernity that was in place during those years and also comprises an ex...

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Main Author: Rocha, Carolina (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
Series:Liverpool Latin American studies ; new ser., 16.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Argentine Cinema and National Identity covers the development of Argentine cinema since the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, a period that has been understudied. This essential cultural history delves on the dialect tradition versus modernity that was in place during those years and also comprises an examination of the political economy of film production as well as the different laws, including that implementing censorship that regulated this cultural industry. It also pays particular attention to two historical film genres: the historical film genre per se and the gauchesque, a genre based on outlaw gauchos that was crucial for nation-building in the nineteenth century. This volume investigates the way Argentine cinema positioned itself when facing the competition of glossy American films and resorted to the historical and gauchesque to bridge the stark divisions between the Argentine left and right in the late 1960s.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 250 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781786948267
1786948265
9781786944955
1786944952