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Utopia and Neoliberalism in Latin American Cinema

The Allegory of the Motionless Traveler

By: Carla Grosman

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Utopia and Neoliberalism in Latin American Cinema

The Allegory of the Motionless Traveler

By: Carla Grosman

The topic of the crisis and recovery of utopia, at both a global and regional level, stands out in these melancholic times in which the capitalist era can no longer legitimize itself as an irreplaceable form of social existence. This book reflects upon the place of utopia, moving from classic Greece to the neoliberal era, specifically as manifested in Latin America. It studies utopia as a political and literary device for paradigmatic changes. As such, it links with the literary mode of the travelogue and its supporting role in the consolidation and perpetuation of the modern/colonial discourse. The book reviews critical approaches to modernity and postmodernity as a philosophical enquiry on the role of symbolic languages, particularly the one played by the image and the theories of representation and performance. With that, and by using decolonialist theory to inform an audio-visual text analysis, it contributes to film philosophy with a model of analysis for Latin American cinema: namely, “the allegory of the motionless traveler”. This model states that Latin America millennial cinema possesses a significant aesthetic-political power achieved by enacting a process of utopic re-narration. This book will appeal to students and academics in the humanities and social sciences and readers interested in film culture, as well as those searching specifically for new perspectives on socio-symbolic decolonialist dynamics operating at the crossroads of cultural politics and political culture in Latin America.

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1527525864

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Post-Dictatorship Argentinian Cinema as a Renarration of Collective Memory

The Spectrum of Absence

By: Carla Grosman,Lilen Gillet

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Post-Dictatorship Argentinian Cinema as a Renarration of Collective Memory

The Spectrum of Absence

By: Carla Grosman,Lilen Gillet

This book reflects on the role of Argentinean cinema in the construction of social memory. It observes the melancholic scene of Argentina’s first decade post-dictatorship as a context without the necessary social understanding to frame the traumatic experiences of the 1976-1983 military repression. Hence, it interprets such conditions as facilitating processes of intersubjective forgetting, fostered by sociopolitical institutions organizing the discourse of truth within a neoliberal re-democratization endeavor. The book proposes that the non-hegemonic cinema of 1985-1996 operated as a symbolic mediation with which a post-dictatorial, poetic, negotiated truth emerged within the historical process of collective memorialization of social trauma. The book draws from research on Latin American cinema and popular culture, subaltern studies, memory and trauma studies, and the notion of cultural hegemony.

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Utopia and Neoliberalism in Latin American Cinema

The Allegory of the Motionless Traveler

By: Carla Grosman

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Post-Dictatorship Argentinian Cinema as a Renarration of Collective Memory

The Spectrum of Absence

By: Carla Grosman,Lilen Gillet

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The Spectrum of Absence

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Utopia and Neoliberalism in Latin American Cinema

Utopia and Neoliberalism in Latin American Cinema

Post-Dictatorship Argentinian Cinema as a Renarration of Collective Memory

Post-Dictatorship Argentinian Cinema as a Renarration of Collective Memory

Utopia and Neoliberalism in Latin American Cinema

Utopia and Neoliberalism in Latin American Cinema

Post-Dictatorship Argentinian Cinema as a Renarration of Collective Memory

Post-Dictatorship Argentinian Cinema as a Renarration of Collective Memory

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