Overview
- Highlights contemporary Argentine women filmmakers' appeals to affect
- Points out how the presence of affect complicates emotional bonding or empathic relations in the films of Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, and Lucía Puenzo
- Conceptualizes "affective moments" to highlight subtle tensions between affect and basic emotions, thus spotlighting these filmmakers' negotiations of the social
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- women directors
- sociopolitical filmmaking
- Argentine women filmmakers
- Argentine cinema
- Latin American Women Filmmakers
- Latin American cinema
- Lucrecia Martel
- Albertina Carr
- Lucía Puenzo
- affective moments
- female directors
- affect in film
- intimacy on screen
- Politicized Intimacies
- intimate tensions
- memory in film
- desire on screen
- violence on screen
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Reviews
“This book is a much needed and rigorous examination of contemporary Argentine cinema, which focuses on the highly original and controversial films by Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, and Lucía Puenzo. Selimović's solid analyses are based on her remarkable knowledge of feminist theory and thus provide valuable insights about new subjectivities in the twenty-first century.” (Carolina Rocha, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA)
"Selimović’s monograph is a rich, complex, and groundbreaking study on the tremendous importance of the affective dimension in contemporary Latin American women’s filmmaking. Her research places great emphasis on the role of children in grounding affect in the films she analyses. Children were particularly vulnerable social subjects during the time of the putative Dirty War and the neofascist military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). And children have been the concomitant focus of many educational and social reforms in Argentina subsequent to the military tyranny. Torn often between competing versions of the past, children in Argentina are often forced to resolve historical conflicts their elders not only created, but are themselves powerless to resolve. This dimension provides Selimović's study with a significant basis for viewing the role of affect in the films she examines." (David William Foster, Regents' Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University, USA)Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Inela Selimović is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Affective Moments in the Films of Martel, Carri, and Puenzo
Authors: Inela Selimović
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49642-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49641-6Published: 18 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49642-3Published: 09 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 263
Topics: Latin American Cinema and TV, Directing, Women's Studies, Latin American Culture, Culture and Gender