Other Worlds: New Argentine Film (New Concepts in Latino American Cultures)

Other Worlds is the most complete text to be published on the new Argentine cinema. While anchored in critical discourse and written by an academic, it also has the virtue of using clear and accessible language. In addition, the book is more than a study of cinema; in its pages, the author reflects upon the recent crisis in Argentina. In the words of Argentine critic Diego Trerotola, “the trajectory of this essay forms a vivid map of over ten years of innovation, in order to understand the aesthetic work of our national cinema.” Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 1 On the Existence of the New Argentine Cinema......Page 18 The One Thousand and One Ways to Make a Film......Page 19 Changes in Artistic Production......Page 25 Aesthetic Paths......Page 26 Nomadism and Sedentarism......Page 44 Dispersion and Fixity (between La ciénaga and Pizza, birra, faso)......Page 46 Intensities of Faces and Bodies (Rapado and Todo juntos)......Page 59 The Return of the Documentary......Page 68 The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Renouncement and Liberty in a Lisandro Alonso Movie......Page 71 Commodities and Experience......Page 76 Cinema of Remains: Lisandro Alonso’s Los muertos......Page 78 Silvia Prieto, or Love at Thirty......Page 85 Sound, Track Separate......Page 94 La niña santa and the Closure of Performance......Page 96 Los guantes mágicos: Noises on the Surface......Page 103 The Use of Genre: Trips and Detours......Page 111 Comedy: Speed and Chance (Tan de repente and Sábado)......Page 112 Pablo Trapero’s El bonaerense: The Genre of Corporatism......Page 120 Politics beyond the Political......Page 128 Goodbye to “the People”......Page 136 Nostalgia for Work......Page 147 Words That Wound: Discrimination in Bolivia......Page 157 Los rubios: Mourning, Frivolity, and Melancholy......Page 166 The Testimony of a Dissolution: On Anahí Berneri’s A Year without Love......Page 181 Appendix 1 The World of Cinema in Argentina......Page 194 Appendix 2 The Policy of Actors......Page 220 Appendix 3 Argentine Films That Premiered between 1997 and Mid-2005......Page 226 Notes......Page 238 Bibliography......Page 274 D......Page 282 R......Page 283 B......Page 284 J......Page 285 P......Page 286 B......Page 287 P......Page 288 W......Page 289 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 those by Lucrecia Martel and Sergio Rejtman