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Overview"For roughly two decades after the collapse of the military regime in 1983, testimonial narrative was viewed and received as a privileged genre in Argentina. Today, however, academics and public intellectuals are experiencing ""memory fatigue,"" a backlash against the concepts of memory and trauma, just as memory and testimonial films have reached the center of Argentinian public discourse. In Rethinking Testimonial Cinema in Postdictatorship Argentina, Veronica Garibotto looks at the causes for this reticence and argues that, rather than discarding memory texts for their repetitive excess, it is necessary to acknowledge them and their exhaustion as discourses of the present. By critically examining how trauma theory and subaltern studies have previously been applied to testimonial cinema, Garibotto rereads Argentinian films produced since 1983 and calls for an alternate interpretive framework at the intersection of semiotics, theories of affect, scholarship on hegemony, and the ideological uses of documentary and fiction. She argues that recurrent concepts-such as trauma, mourning, memory, and subalternity-miss how testimonial films have changed over time, shifting from subaltern narratives to official, hegemonic, and iconic accounts. Her work highlights the urgent need to continue to study these types of narratives, particularly at a time when military dictatorships have become entrenched in Latin America and memory narratives proliferate worldwide. Although Argentina is Garibotto's focus, her theory can be adapted to other contexts in which narratives about recent political conflicts have shifted from alternative versions of history to official, hegemonic accounts-such as in Spanish, Chilean, Uruguayan, Brazilian, South African, and Holocaust testimonies. Garibotto's study of testimonial cinema moves us to pursue a broader ideological analysis of the links between film and historical representation." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Veronica GaribottoPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253038500ISBN 10: 0253038502 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 07 January 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Redefining Testimonial Cinema 1. Knowledge and Feeling: Testimonial Documentary and Fiction in the 1980s 2. Indexicality and Counter-Hegemony: Testimonial Documentary in the 1990s 3. Distortion and History in Post-2000 Second-Generation Performative Documentaries 4. Emotion and History in Post-2000 Second-Generation Iconic Fictions Afterword: From Counter-Hegemony to Hegemony Works Cited IndexReviewsWell researched and immensely readable, Garibotto's book provides valuable insights and commentary that will also be useful for other literatures entrenched in military dictatorship. * Choice * Rethinking Testimonial Cinema proposes a renewed approach to reading the links among film, genre, and history that is particularly useful to scholars working on the filmic representation of iconic political conflicts. * Film History * Rethinking Testimonial Cinema proposes a renewed approach to reading the links among film, genre, and history that is particularly useful to scholars working on the filmic representation of iconic political conflicts. * Film History * Well researched and immensely readable, Garibotto's book provides valuable insights and commentary that will also be useful for other literatures entrenched in military dictatorship. * Choice * Rethinking Testimonial Cinema proposes a renewed approach to reading the links among film, genre, and history that is particularly useful to scholars working on the filmic representation of iconic political conflicts. * Film History * Author InformationVerónica Garibotto is Associate Professor of Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Crisis y reemergencia: el siglo XIX en la ficción contemporánea de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay and editor (with Jorge Pérez) of The Latin American Road Movie. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |