From Paper to Celluloid and Back Again
Finance and Form in Jorge Délano's Films
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170292 |
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| Authors | Stephen Butte, Stephen M Butte (corresponding author), Stephen Buttes, Stephen M Buttes (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 571-600 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2017.1384369 |
| OpenAlex | W2767158224 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
This essay argues that our current understanding of the cinematic work by the pioneering Chilean film director Jorge Délano obscures a sophisticated interaction between politics, art and economics, one that reveals unexamined aspects of how the film industry developed in Chile. Most notably, it argues that Délano's illustrated political satire magazine Topaze was central to the development of early sound cinema in the country. Following Rielle Navitski, the essay utilizes and examines tensions between models drawn from periodical studies and the concepts of remediation and intermediality in film studies. Examining illustrations from the first three years of Topaze's production (1931-1933) in the context of the country's economic situation, the essay argues that Délano remediated cinema in Topaze as a strategy of capital accumulation. This analysis also makes it possible to see how one of his sound films, Escándalo (1940), similarly remediated the illustrated paper periodical as he pursued financing for the production of cinematic commodities for export. The essay ends by examining the relationship between these issues and the political situation in early Cold War Chile
Art · Art history · Capital (architecture · Context (archaeology · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Cinema History and Criticism · History · Latin American Literature Studies · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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