Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema

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She herself deploys those terms with impressive care and clarity, to deliver an acute analysis of a range of key works from the mids to the present — thus turning what could easily have been a fairly dry exercise into an incisive and engaging argument. She systematically asserts that contemporary Argentine cinema operates as a reflection and articulation of post-crisis subjectivities and a sociological tool and framework with which to examine post-crisis society.

The way Page positions Argentine cinema raises questions of the nation and national cinema that has surged in Argentina during and after the crisis. The incorporation of several film stills add to the reading and help visualize specific points of analysis.

More importantly, they complement a text that becomes a window from which we can achieve a privileged perspective from which to see Argentina preparing itself to face the new century. Graduate students and researchers. A useful resource for cultural studies as well as film collections.

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He also works on Latin American economic issues, on problems of comparative national economic performance, and on primary commodity markets. Hank Gonzalez is a lecturer in the History Faculty specializing in the Caribbean. His book 'Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti' comes out in His initial research deals with the early years of Haitian independence. He is currently writing a book on foreign influence in the twentieth-century Haitian art business, and pursuing a marine archeology project in Haiti.

Her research interests include social movements, especially labour movements; ethnography of the state, democracy and citizenship; gender; the city; and the anthropology of politics and development, with a particular focus on Bolivia and Argentina. She is the author of various articles on these topics, as well as El Alto, Rebel City: The first has been published in Spanish translation in Bolivia by Plural , and the second is forthcoming in Argentina with Siglo xxi in mid She has also co-edited journal special issues on the Bolivian uprisings of , the anthropology of citizenship, and precarious labour, and is the editor of Where are the Unions?

A Reader Wiley-Blackwell She is one of the joint editors of the Journal of Latin American Studies. Her research has primarily focussed on Mexico and Latin America more broadly. The interest in researching the 'qualities' of the lived experience of racism, has taken her to the study of the everyday, the relevance of emotions, issues around gender, visibility and embodiment as well as exploring the links with anti-racist practice, political activism and collaboration.


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Currently, she is developing various research strands: His current research explores the representation of the Magdalena River in Colombian culture between and the present day. In doing so it uses the river as a conduit into the fragile interplay between nation-formation and global political and economic processes. She specializes in social difference and development geographies, largely in the Andes. Her current research interests include social heterogeneity in development, indigenous engagements with development, and postcolonial social theory. She specializes in the colonial history of the Andes.

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Her research interests include religion, culture, and politics in colonial and modern Latin America. Her book Death and Conversion in the Andes. Cline Prize , for its contribution to the history of indigenous peoples in Latin America. She has recently co-edited Indigenous Intellectuals: Erica Segre specialises in nineteenth-century Latin-American literature and thought, and twentieth-century and contemporary visual culture photography, art and film. She has lectured and published extensively in these areas in Britain and abroad and has organized international symposia, film seasons and curated exhibitions.

Her book Intersected Identities: She is completing a book on interdisciplinarity and visual culture with reference to creative media writing, photography, visual arts and film in nineteenth and twentieth century Mexico and is working on indigeneity and contemporary art practice in Chile. Flavio Comim is a development economist.