Post-Dictatorship Argentinian Cinema as a Renarration of Collective Memory

The Spectrum of Absence

Carla Grosman, Lilen Gillet (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

132 Seiten

2023 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-1976-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Carla Grosman holds a BA (Hons) in film studies from the National University of Cordoba, Argentina. In New Zealand, she obtained an MA and a PhD in Latin American cultural studies at the University of Auckland. Presently, she is a PhD candidate in communication studies and an associate researcher at the Communication for Social Change Research Center, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Simultaneously in Argentina, Grosman is a postdoctoral fellow working on regional cinema and urban youth imaginaries at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) and a senior lecturer at the Institute of Visual Expresion, National University of San Juan. In 2018, Grosman published Utopia and Neoliberalism in Latin American Cinema: The Allegory of the Motionless Traveler. Lilen Gillet, who translated this book, holds a BA (Hons) in English language and literature, and has been translating texts related to archaeology and anthropology at the Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology since 2009. She works at the National University of Catamarca, Argentina, teaching literature and writing, where she is also a PhD candidate in the field of human sciences.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2023
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5275-1976-7 / 1527519767
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-1976-3 / 9781527519763
Zustand	Neuware