Argentine cinema and national identity (1966-1976) / / Carolina Rocha.

• Superior document: Liverpool Latin American Studies ; New Series 16
• VerfasserIn: Rocha, Carolina,
• Place / Publishing House: Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Liverpool Latin American studies ; new ser., 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 250 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2019).

Argentine Cinema and National Identity' covers the development of Argentine cinema since the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, a period that has been understudied. This essential cultural history delves on the dialect tradition versus modernity that was in place during those years and also comprises an examination of the political economy of film production as well as the different laws, including that implementing censorship that regulated this cultural industry. It also pays particular attention to two historical film genres: the historical film genre per se and the 'gauchesque', a genre based on outlaw gauchos that was crucial for nation-building in the nineteenth century. This volume investigates the way Argentine cinema positioned itself when facing the competition of glossy American films and resorted to the historical and 'gauchesque' to bridge the stark divisions between the Argentine left and right in the late 1960s.