Revisiting the Argentine Political Documentary of the Late 1950s and Early 1960s

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ID4500490
AuthorsMoira Fradinger (corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume40
Issue1
Pages37-49
Publication date2013-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x12460492
OpenAlexW2014465014
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

Criticism has tended to see the pioneer documentaries of the New Latin American Cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s as reproducing what they denounced. Close analysis of the formal strategies of three classic Argentine films of the period-Fernando Birri's Tire Dié, Humberto Ríos's Faena, and Raymundo Gleyzer's Ceramiqueros de Traslasierra-suggests, instead, that the questions and contradictions in these political documentaries are illuminated by the desire to imagine and address a new audience as an agent of social change. La crítica ha tendido a ver los documentales pioneros del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de la década de 1950 y comienzos de 1960 como la reproducción de lo que denunciaban. Un análisis más detallado de las estrategias formales de tres clásicos del cine argentino de la época- Tire Dié de Fernando Birri, Faena de Humberto Ríos, y Ceramiqueros de Traslasierra de Raymundo Gleyzer-sugiere, en cambio, que las cuestiones y contradicciones en estos documentales políticos son clarificadas por el deseo de imaginar y dirigirse a una nueva audiencia entendida como un agente de cambio social

Documentary evidence · Economic history · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cinema History and Criticism · History · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Spanish Culture and Identity

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