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1 online resource (xx, 219 pages) |
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Intro; Table of Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Contextual Fragmentation of Argentina, Cuba and Mexico; A Possible Poietic Model; 1. The Myth of Impossible Exteriority; 1.1. Modern epistemology and analogic cosmogony; 1.2. The modern/colonial world system; 1.3. Utopia as an allegory of the tension unleashed by the modern/colonial world system; 1.3.1. What is the conception of the real that dominates the times from which Thomas More's Utopia is written?; 1.3.2. Utopia as an allegory of the tensions unleashed by the constitution of the 'modern-colonial world system' |
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1.4. A dialectical sign of the possible2. Civilization is Barbarism or Dialectics about the Coloniality of Power; 2.1. The dark side of Modernity; 2.1.1. Foundational fictions in intertextual dynamics; 2.1.2. Postcolonial thought and Latin America's Utopia; 2.2. The dialectics of Caliban; 2.3. Caliban behind the mirror or the intellectual artist/people idiologeme; 3. Decolonial Thinking and Language; 3.1. The narrative of the market utopia and the democratic fetish; 3.2. The recovery of citizenship; 3.3. Postmodernism, transmodernity and poiesis |
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3.4. The process of discursive deconstruction of the modern-critical Travel Narrative in the Latin American narrativeAudiovisual Orality and Recovery of Civic Power in the Travel Narrative of the 'New Argentine Cinema'; 1.1. Violence, hegemony and recovery of civic power; 1.2. ""Testimonial simulation"" and Travel Narrative in the canonical national cinematography; 1.3. Independent production, short film and interculturality; 1.4. 'The New Argentine Cinema' (NCA); 1.4.1. The subjectivization of the gaze; 1.4.2. Bad Times: Map of a dystopia; 1.5. Summary |
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'Iconization' of the Utopia and the Breaking of the 'Fourth Wall' in the Cuban Film of the Revolution1. Introduction to the Revolutionary Project; 1.1. Reconciling theory and practice; 1.2. Conflict of coherence between practice and theory; 1.3. The 'Special Period' and Coherence Conflicts among the revolutionary Ethos, Pathos and Logos; 1.4. The case of emigration; 1.5. Final considerations on this context; 2. Encounter of the Cuban Cinema of the Revolution with the Epic- Dialectical Theater of Bertold Brecht and the Poietic Project of the 'New Left' |
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3. Conversations in the Brechtian Code between Memories of Underdevelopment and the 'Special Period' Production3.1. The flâneur; 3.2 The Brechtian epic narrator in Life is to Whistle; 4. Metafiction and Rupture of the Fourth Wall as Forms of Transtextuality; 4.1. 'Paratextuality' or the 'self-reflective work'; 4.2. The 'architextuality' or relationship of a text with others as part of the same genre; 4.3. 'Metatextuality' and the rupture of the Fourth Wall; Cain's Sign; 1. The 'Andalusian Dog'; 2. Dog Day Afternoon; 3. Eyes of a Blue Dog; 4. Midrashic Différence; 4.1. Abel and Cain |
| Summary |
"The topic of the crisis and recovery of utopia, at both a global and regional level, stands out in these melancholic times in which the capitalist era can no longer legitimize itself as an irreplaceable form of social existence. This book reflects upon the place of utopia, moving from classic Greece to the neoliberal era, specifically as manifested in Latin America. It studies utopia as a political and literary device for paradigmatic changes. As such, it links with the literary mode of the travelogue and its supporting role in the consolidation and perpetuation of the modern/colonial discourse. The book reviews critical approaches to modernity and postmodernity as a philosophical enquiry on the role of symbolic languages, particularly the one played by the image and the theories of representation and performance. With that, and by using decolonialist theory to inform an audio-visual text analysis, it contributes to film philosophy with a model of analysis for Latin American cinema: namely, 'the allegory of the motionless traveler'. This model states that Latin America millennial cinema possesses a significant aesthetic-political power achieved by enacting a process of utopic re-narration. This book will appeal to students and academics in the humanities and social sciences and readers interested in film culture, as well as those searching specifically for new perspectives on socio-symbolic decolonialist dynamics operating at the crossroads of cultural politics and political culture in Latin America."--Back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-219) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Latin America -- History
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Utopias in motion pictures.
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Neoliberalism in popular culture -- Latin America
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ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
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Motion pictures
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Neoliberalism in popular culture
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Utopias in motion pictures
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Latin America
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781527525863 |
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1527525864 |
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