El niño en el cine argentino de la postdictadura (1983-2008). Alegoría y nostalgia
(2014) ISBN: [9781855662858], 386 pages, published
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- (en) This book is the first monograph devoted to the role of the child in Latin American cinema. Through close analysis of about ten Argentine fiction films of the post-dictatorship period directed between 1983 and 2008, including both classic such as The Official Story and A Place in the World) and forgotten works such as Amigomío and El rigor del destino. Dufays shows how the child's gaze and language are a means of focusing a nostalgic form of allegory, structured around either memory or verbal language, and related to the figure of the absent father. In combining these analyses with a wide theoretical articulation of four key notions (allegory, melancholy, mourning and nostalgia) and with a genealogy of the allegorical child character in Latin American narrative traditions, Relatos de infancia allows the reader to explore the meanings that childhood and family have come to acquire in cinema, particularly in the Argentine post-dictatorial context.
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Dufays, S. (2014). El niño en el cine argentino de la postdictadura (1983-2008). Alegoría y nostalgia. Tamesis. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/222744