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Picturing Argentina - Myths, Movies, and the Peronist Vision (Hardcover)
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Picturing Argentina - Myths, Movies, and the Peronist Vision (Hardcover)
Series: Cambria Studies in Latin American Literatures and Cultures
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Although Juan Domingo Peron's central role in Argentine history and
the need for an unbiased assessment of his impact on his nation's
cinema are beyond dispute, the existing scholarship on the subject
is limited. In recent decades Argentina has witnessed a revival of
serious film study, some of which has focused on the nation's
classical movies and, in one case, on Peronism. None of this work
has been translated into English, however.This is the first
English-language book that offers an extensive assessment of
Argentine cinema during first Peronism. It is also the first study
in any language that concentrates systematically on the evolution
of social attitudes reflected in Argentine movies throughout those
years and that assesses the period's impact on subsequent
filmmaking activity. By analyzing popular Argentine movies from
this time through the prism of myth-second-order communication
systems that present historically developed customs and attitudes
as natural-the book traces the filmic construction of gender,
criminality, race, the family, sports, and the military. It
identifies in movies the development and evolution of mindsets and
attitudes that may be construed as "Peronist." By framing its
consideration of films from the Peron years in the context of
earlier and later ones, it demonstrates that this period
accelerates-and sometimes registers backward-looking responses
to-earlier progressive mythic shifts, and it traces the development
in the 1950s of a critical mindset that comes to fruition in the
"new cinema" of the 1960s. Picturing Argentina: Myths, Movies, and
the Peronist Vision is an important book for Latin American
studies, film studies, and history collections.
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