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

• Main Author: Selimović, Inela (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures, American.; Motion pictures-Production and direction.; Women.; Ethnology-Latin America.; Culture.; Gender.; Latin American Cinema and TV.; Directing.; Women's Studies.; Latin American Culture.; Culture and Gender.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Part I MINORS AND HOMEBOUND VIOLENCE - Retributive Affects in Albertina Carri's La rabia (2008)
• 3. Affective Otherness in Lucrecia Martel's La ciénaga (2001)
• 4. Lucía Puenzo's El niño pez (2009): Fluid Intimacies, Affective Dwelling
• 5. Part II REMEDIATIONS AND AFFECT - The Hypermediacy Appeal in Albertina Carri's Los rubios (2003)
• 6. Muted Gestures, Screaming Affects in Lucrecia Martel's La mujer sin cabeza (2008)
• 7. Ghostly Pasts and Contested Silence in Lucía Puenzo's Wakolda: El médico alemán (2013)
• 8. Part III BOLD BOREDOMS, LIBIDINOUS AFFECTS - Compulsory Boredom and Cerulean Desires in Lucía Puenzo's XXY (2007)
• 9. Albertina Carri's Géminis (2005): Leisurely Boredom, Incestuous Discontent
• 10. Lucrecia Martel's La niña santa (2004): On Waiting, Monotony, and Agentic Kinesthesis
• 11. Conclusion. .