New Argentine Film Other Worlds [Paperback]

Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the new Argentine cinema phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly relevant films, including recent award-winners at all of the major festivals.Introduction PART I On the Existence of the New Argentine Cinema The Thousand and One Ways to Make a Film Changes in Artistic Production Aesthetic Paths PART II Film, the Narration of? a World Nomadism and Sedentarism Dispersion and Fixity (between La ci?naga and Pizza, birra, faso ) Intensities of Faces and Bodies ( Rapado and Todo Juntos ) The Return of the Documentary The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Renouncement and Liberty in a Lisandro Alonso Movie Commodities and Experience Cinema of Remains: Lisandro Alonso's Los muertos Silvia Prieto, or Love at Thirty Sound, Track Separate La ni?a santa and the Closure of Performance Los guantes m?gicos: Noises on the Surface The Use of Genre: Trips and Detours Comedy: Speed and Chance ( Tan de repente and S?bado ) Pablo Trapero's El bonaerense : the Genre of Corporatism PART III A World Without Narration (Political Investigation) Politics Beyond Politics Goodbye to the people Nostalgia for Work Words that Wound: Discrimination in Bolivia Los rubios: Mourning, Frivolity, and Melancholy Testimony of a Dissolution APPENDICES The World of Cinema in Argentina The Policy of Actors Argentine Films that Premiered between 1997-2005

In this insightful, well-researched, theoretically grounded, and original critical-analytical study, Aguilar seeks to characterize and interpret this movement by examining films through the lenses of such social and aesthetic concepts/topics as nomadism (the absence of a home and of ties of belonging), the frequent omniscience of commodities and merchandise, the thematization of soundtracks, the deconstruction of social stereotypes, and the striking modifications of film glƒd