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Record Nr.

UNINA9910474055803321

Autore

Rocha Carolina

Titolo

Argentine cinema and national identity (1966-1976) / / Carolina Rocha [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2017

ISBN

1-78694-495-2

1-78694-826-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Liverpool Latin American Studies ; ; New Series 16

Disciplina

791.430982

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Argentina - History

National characteristics in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2019).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.