Affective Moments in the Films of Martel, Carri, and Puenzo

Affective Moments in the Films of Martel, Carri, and Puenzo
ISBN-10
1137496428
ISBN-13
9781137496423
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
263
Language
English
Published
2018-04-09
Publisher
Springer
Author
Inela Selimović

Description

This book studies the intimate tensions between affect and emotions as terrains of sociopolitical significance in the cinema of Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, and Lucía Puenzo. Such tensions, Selimović argues, result in “affective moments” that relate to the films’ core arguments. They also signal these filmmakers’ novel insights on complex manifestations of memory, desire, and violence. The chapters explore how the presence of pronounced—but reticent—affect complicates emotional bonding in the everydayness depicted in these films. By bringing out moments of affect in these filmmakers’ diegetic worlds, this book traces the ways in which subtle foci on gender, class, race, and sexuality correlate in these Argentine women’s films.

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