Affectual Erasure

Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Argentine Cinema (livre en anglais)

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de Cynthia Margarita Tompkins

Type: Etudes
Sujet: Pays > Amérique latine
Mots Clés: Argentine, sociologie, représentation
Année d'édition: 2019
1ere édition: 2018
Editeur: State University of New York Press
Collection: SUNY series in Latin American cinema
Langue: anglais

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Broché • 398 pages
16 x 24 cm

ISBN

978-1-4384-7096-2

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.

Affectual Erasure examines how Argentine cinema has represented Indigenous peoples throughout a period spanning roughly a century. Cynthia Margarita Tompkins interrelates her discussion of films with the ethnographic context of the Indigenous peoples represented and an analysis of the affective dimensions at play. These emotions underscore the inherent violence of generic conventions, as well as the continued political violence preventing Indigenous peoples from access to their ancestral lands and cultural mores. Tompkins explores a broad range of movies beginning in the silent period and includes both feature films and documentaries, underscored by archival and contemporary film stills. She traces the initial erotic projection, moving through melodrama to the conventions of the Western, into the 1960s focus on decolonization, superseded by allegorical renditions and the promise of self-expression in late twentieth-century documentaries. Each section includes an introduction to the sociohistorical events of the period and their impact on film production. Analyzed chronologically, the films evidence different stages in the projection of the hegemonic Argentine imaginary, which fails to envision the daily life of Indigenous peoples prior to conquest or in colonial times—and remains in denial of their existence in the present.

À propos de l'auteur :
Cynthia Margarita Tompkins is Professor of Spanish at Arizona State University and the author of Experimental Latin American Cinema: History and Aesthetics.

Revue de Presse :
"This is an enormous contribution to film and cultural studies, due to its meticulously researched registry of film titles and filmmakers, primary and secondary source bibliography, direct citations from the films translated into English, important stills and basic biography of the filmmakers, carefully analysed within the era of production of the individual work. Especially valuable are the introductions to each era, which historicize the films within the cinema tradition of the time. " — Bulletin of Spanish Studies

"…[an] ambitious, wide-ranging book. " — CHOICE

"Cynthia Margarita Tompkins's book is the most comprehensive analysis of the cinematic representations of Argentinean Indigenous peoples ever written. Her writing is lucid, insightful, grounded in a thorough familiarity with the films, and aware of the most current theoretical debates in film/theory and cultural studies. The book will surely become a breakthrough in its field. " — Santiago Juan-Navarro, author of Archival Reflections: Postmodern Fiction of the Americas (Self-Reflexivity, Historical Revisionism, Utopia)

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