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New Concepts in Latino American Cultures A Series Edited by Licia Fiol-Matta & José Quiroga Ciphers of History: Latin American Readings for a Cultural Age by Enrico Mario Santí Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny of Place by Jacqueline Loss Remembering Maternal Bodies: Melancholy in Latina and Latin American Women’s Writing by Benigno Trigo The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise edited by Erin Graff Zivin Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity: From Sensuality to Bloodshed by Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity by Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond Essays in Cuban Intellectual History by Rafael Rojas Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing by Damián Baca Confronting History and Modernity in Mexican Narrative by Elisabeth Guerrero Cuban Women Writers: Imagining a Matria by Madeline Cámara Betancourt Other Worlds: New Argentine Film by Gonzalo Aguilar Forthcoming Titles Cuba in the Special Period: Culture and Ideology in the 1990s edited by Ariana Hernandez-Reguant Telling Ruins in Latin America edited by Michael J. 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Suárez Forthcoming Titles Violence without Guilt: Ethical Narratives from the Global South by Hermann Herlinghaus Puerto Ricans in America: 30 Years of Activism and Change edited by Xavier F. Totti and Felix V. Matos Rodriguez 99778800223300660066559933ttss0011..iinndddd iiii 99//1166//22000088 88::5500::1144 PPMM Other Worlds New Argentine Film Gonzalo Aguilar Translated by Sarah Ann Wells 99778800223300660066559933ttss0011..iinndddd iiiiii 99//1166//22000088 88::5500::1144 PPMM OTHER WORLDS Copyright © Gonzalo Aguilar, 2008. All rights reserved. First published in 2008 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN-13: 978–0–230–60659–3 ISBN-10: 0–230–60659–8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Aguilar, Gonzalo Moisés. [Otros mundos. English] Other worlds : new Argentine film / Gonzalo Aguilar. p. cm.—(New concepts in Latino American cultures series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–230–60659–8 1. Motion pictures—Argentina—History. I. Title. PN1993.5.A7A5813 2008 791.430982(cid:1)090511—dc22 2008019400 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: November 2008 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America. 99778800223300660066559933ttss0011..iinndddd iivv 99//1166//22000088 88::5500::1144 PPMM To Jorge Ruffinelli, cinephile and friend To my father, Tuchi, who took me to see that Buster Keaton picture 99778800223300660066559933ttss0011..iinndddd vv 99//1166//22000088 88::5500::1155 PPMM This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 On the Existence of the New Argentine Cinema 7 The One Thousand and One Ways to Make a Film 8 Changes in Artistic Production 14 Aesthetic Paths 15 2 Film, the Narration of a World 33 Nomadism and Sedentarism 33 Dispersion and Fixity (between La ciénaga and Pizza, birra, faso) 35 Intensities of Faces and Bodies (Rapado and Todo juntos) 48 The Return of the Documentary 57 The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Renouncement and Liberty in a Lisandro Alonso Movie 60 Commodities and Experience 65 Cinema of Remains: Lisandro Alonso’s Los muertos 67 Silvia Prieto, or Love at Thirty 74 Sound, Track Separate 83 La niña santa and the Closure of Performance 85 Los guantes mágicos: Noises on the Surface 92 The Use of Genre: Trips and Detours 100 Comedy: Speed and Chance (Tan de repente and Sábado) 101 Pablo Trapero’s El bonaerense: The Genre of Corporatism 109 3 A World without Narration (Political Investigation) 117 Politics beyond the Political 117 Goodbye to “the People” 125 Nostalgia for Work 136 99778800223300660066559933ttss0011..iinndddd vviiii 99//1166//22000088 88::5500::1155 PPMM viii Contents Words That Wound: Discrimination in Bolivia 146 Los rubios: Mourning, Frivolity, and Melancholy 155 The Testimony of a Dissolution: On Anahí Berneri’s A Year without Love 170 Appendix 1: The World of Cinema in Argentina 183 Appendix 2: The Policy of Actors 209 Appendix 3: Argentine Films That Premiered between 1997 and Mid-2005 215 Notes 227 Bibliography 263 Index 271 99778800223300660066559933ttss0011..iinndddd vviiiiii 99//1166//22000088 88::5500::1155 PPMM Acknowledgments In 1999, I put together a study group on film, literature, and theory in which Jimena Rodríguez, Pablo Garavaglia, Lucía Tennina, Julieta Lerman, Joana D’Alessio, Bárbara Rivkin, Julieta Bliffeld, and Germán Conde participated. Together we discussed various ideas that culminated in this book. Jimena Rodríguez, in addition to pro- viding materials and ideas, wrote a paper on Lucrecia Martel’s film that helped me rethink my central hypothesis. Pablo Garavaglia spent many afternoons at the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires consulting materials and journals. In 2004, Nicolás Casullo generously invited me to teach a seminar in the Master’s Program in Communication and Culture in the Social Science department of the Universidad de Buenos Aires. This class was fundamental for me in organizing many of the hypotheses and proposals of this book. I would like to thank the students who shared this seminar with me. In early 2005, Elvira Arnoux had the kindness to invite me to share the conclusions of my investigation at the Master’s Program in Discourse Analysis that she directs at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. There, students discussed my viewpoints and contributed new perspectives. The following people have lent me a hand with materials, bibliography, or suggestions: Denise Estremero, Lucas Margarit, Ana Amado, Juan Balerdi, Alejo Moguillansky, Gabriel Lichtmann, Gregorio Goyo Anchou, Diego Lerman, Juan Villegas, Rodrigo Laera, Santiago García, Ana Amado, Martín Kohan, Yaki Setton, Cachi from the video store La fábrica de los sueños, Mariano from Estilo, Mariano from Black 2, the guys at La Mirage, Andrés Insaurralde from the library at the Museo del Cine, and Emilio Bernini. Mariano Siskind translated texts and sent them to me from far away. Paulina Seivach, whose statistics and studies I have used here, responded politely to my emails. 99778800223300660066559933ttss0011..iinndddd iixx 99//1166//22000088 88::5500::1155 PPMM
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