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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822929503321

Autore

Garibotto Verónica <1976->

Titolo

Rethinking testimonial cinema in postdictatorship Argentina : beyond memory fatigue / / Veronica Garibotto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-253-03853-7

0-253-03854-5

0-253-03852-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 pages)

Collana

New directions in national cinemas

Disciplina

791.430982

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Argentina - History

Political violence in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--