There has been a significant surge in recent Argentine cinema, with
an explosion in the number of films made in the country since the
mid-1990s. Many of these productions have been highly acclaimed by
critics in Argentina and elsewhere. What makes this boom all the
more extraordinary is its coinciding with a period of severe
economic crisis and civil unrest in the nation. Offering the first
in-depth English-language study of Argentine fiction films of the
late twentieth century and early twenty-first, Joanna Page explains
how these productions have registered Argentina's experience of
capitalism, neoliberalism, and economic crisis. In different ways,
the films selected for discussion testify to the social
consequences of growing unemployment, rising crime,
marginalization, and the expansion of the informal economy.
Page focuses particularly on films associated with New Argentine
Cinema, but she also discusses highly experimental films and genre
movies that borrow from the conventions of crime thrillers,
Westerns, and film noir. She analyzes films that have received wide
international recognition alongside others that have rarely been
shown outside Argentina. What unites all the films she examines is
their attention to shifts in subjectivity provoked by political or
economic conditions and events. Page emphasizes the paradoxes
arising from the circulation of Argentine films within the same
global economy they so often critique, and she argues that while
Argentine cinema has been intent on narrating the collapse of the
nation-state, it has also contributed to the nation's
reconstruction. She brings the films into dialogue with a broader
range of issues in contemporary film criticism, including the role
of national and transnational film studies, theories of
subjectivity and spectatorship, and the relationship between
private and public spheres.
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