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Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema
By Joanna Page, University of Cambridge
“Given the widespread recognition for the
achievements of contemporary Argentine cinema, it is startling that there have
been so few scholarly works about it published in English. Taking a major step
toward filling this void, Joanna Page offers a fascinating study of recent
Argentine films through beautifully situated readings that reveal the
cinema’s participation in larger sociocultural debates and historical
processes. This is a top-notch work.”—Laura Podalsky, author
of Specular City: Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space in Buenos
Aires, 1955–1973
“Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine
Cinema is an excellent book. Joanna Page gives us a fresh, up-to-date
treatment of one of the most significant and exciting Latin American cinemas of
recent years.”—Michael Chanan, author of Cuban Cinema
There has been a significant boom 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 internationally. What makes this boom all the more extraordinary
is that it has coincided 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 released since the mid-1990s, Joanna Page explains how
these productions have registered Argentina’s experience of capitalism,
neo-liberalism, 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 borrowing from the
conventions of crime thrillers, Westerns, and film noir. 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.
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Jul 2009 272pp
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Mourning the Nation
Indian Cinema in the Wake of
Partition
By Bhaskar Sarkar, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Centered on
the simultaneous repression and representation of India’s Partition,
arguably the defining event of modern South Asian studies, Mourning the
Nation provides the most sophisticated theoretical approach to Indian
cinema to date. It will be impossible for future work on Indian popular culture
not to reckon with Bhaskar Sarkar’s text, and its broadly suggestive
discourse of mourning, loss, and trauma will extend its relevance to scholars
from disciplines and areas with little direct interest in Indian
film.”—Corey K. Creekmur, co-editor of Cinema, Law, and
the State in Asia
What remains of the “national” when the nation
unravels at the birth of the independent state? The political truncation of
India at the end of British colonial rule in 1947 led to a social cataclysm in
which roughly one million people died, and 10 to 12 million were displaced.
Combining film studies, trauma theory, and South Asian cultural history,
Bhaskar Sarkar follows the shifting traces of this event in Indian cinema over
the next six decades. He argues that Partition remains a wound in the
collective psyche of South Asia and that its representation on screen enables
forms of historical engagement that are largely opaque to standard
historiography. Sarkar tracks the initial reticence to engage with the trauma
of 1947 and the subsequent emergence of a strong Partition discourse, revealing
both the silence and the eventual “return of the repressed” as
strands of one complex process. Traversing Hindi and Bengali commercial cinema,
art cinema, and television, Sarkar provides a history of Indian cinema that
interrogates the national and participates in a wider process of mourning the
modernist promises of the nation form.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jul 2009 392pp
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Untimely Bollywood
Globalization and India’s New
Media Assemblage
By Amit S. Rai, Florida State University
“In bold divergence from representation-based studies
of social identity in cinema, Amit S. Rai shifts our attention from the
spectator’s encounter with a discrete film text to the media event or
assemblage generating an ecology of sensations. Packed with original research,
a heterodox range of theoretical influences, and innovative explorations in the
idea of nonlinearity, Untimely Bollywood goes well beyond a study of
globalization’s impact on India’s Hindi-language cinema. What it
offers instead is a provocative thesis on affective and embodied experience
under globalization’s new regimes of media consumption in
India.”—Priya Jaikumar, author of Cinema at the End of
Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India
“Within a rapidly growing body of sophisticated work
on Indian cinema, media, and popular culture, Untimely Bollywood stands
out not only for its originality but also for its audacity. Its deft
coordination of what at first would seem wildly heterogeneous topics is simply
dazzling. There are wonderful discussions throughout that involve themselves in
surprising but consistently illuminating topics, including art deco theatres,
DJ culture, and Dolby sound in India. The movement through these topics is as
often fun as it is enlightening.”—Corey K. Creekmur,
co-editor of Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia
Known for its elaborate spectacle of music, dance, costumes,
and fantastical story lines, Bollywood cinema is a genre that foregrounds
narrative rupture, indeterminacy, and bodily sensation. In Untimely
Bollywood, Amit S. Rai argues that the fast-paced, multivalent qualities of
contemporary Bollywood cinema are emblematic of the changing conditions of
media consumption in a globalizing India. Through analyses of contemporary
media practices, Rai shifts emphasis from a representational and linear
understanding of the effects of audiovisual media to the multiple,
contradictory, and evolving aspects of media events. He uses the Deleuzian concept
of “assemblage” as the model for the complex clustering of
technological, historical, and physical processes that give rise to
contemporary media practices. Exploring the ramifications of globalized media,
he sheds light on how cinema and other popular media organize bodies,
populations, and spaces in order to manage the risky excesses of power and
sensation and reinforce a liberalized postcolonial economy. Expanding on the
notion of media contagion, Rai traces the emerging correlation between the postcolonial
media assemblage and capitalist practices, such as viral marketing and the
development of multiplexes and malls in India.
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Jun 2009 352pp
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Albert Maysles
By Joe McElhaney, City University of New York
"Detailed, insightful
readings of individual films and overall assessment of Maysles' career
welcomely emphasize aesthetic aspects, and a revealing interview with Maysles .
. . conclude."--Booklist
"McElhaney's biography runs like a classic Maysles brother film, sticking
to the facts, letting personal back story slip in here and there, and
presenting an end-of-the-book Q&A as a sort of DVD commentary
track."--Los Angeles Times
“Joe McElhaney makes a persuasive case that [Albert Maysles] belongs
among the likes of Joel and Ethan Coen, Roman Polanski and Neil
Jordan.”--PopMatters
"In many ways,
McElhaney's stance toward his subject echoes Maysles's toward his subject:
sympathetic, inspired by love, unrelenting in its interrogation and analysis.
This smart and articulate book is a pleasure to read."--Charles Musser,
Yale University
Albert Maysles has created some of the most influential
documentaries of the post-war period. Such films as Salesman, Gimme
Shelter and Grey Gardens continue to generate intense debate about
the ethics and aesthetics of the documentary form. In this in-depth study, Joe
McElhaney offers a novel understanding of the historical relevance of Maysles.
By closely focusing on Maysles's expressive use of his camera, particularly in
relation to the filming of the human figure, this book situates Maysles's films
within not only documentary film history but film history in general, arguing
for their broad-ranging importance to both narrative film and documentary
cinema. Complete with an engaging interview with Maysles and a detailed
comparison of the variant releases of his documentary on the Beatles (What's
Happening: The Beatles in the U.S.A. and The Beatles: The First U.S.
Visit), this work is a pivotal study of a significant filmmaker.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Aug 2009 216pp
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