Wesserling, Anne M
(2017)
SCREENING VIOLENCE: MEDIATIONS ON PERCEPTION IN RECENT ARGENTINE LITERATURE AND FILM OF THE POST-DICTATORSHIP.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
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Abstract
In contemporary Argentina, the way that recent history has been publicly remembered and commemorated has been an important public issue with distinct cultural and political dimensions. This dissertation examines a selection of works of contemporary Argentine literature and cinema that reflect the continued impact of this historical period on contemporary cultural politics: the novel Dos veces junio (Two Times June, 2002) by Martín Kohan, the film Los rubios (The Blonds, 2003) by director Albertina Carri, the film La mujer sin cabeza (The Headless Woman, 2008) by director Lucrecia Martel, and the novel El colectivo (The Bus, 2007) by Eugenia Almeida. These two novels and two films revisit the dictatorship during two moments when intense critical discussions about how to represent this historical trauma and the period of militant activism that preceded it were reactivated in the public sphere. I center my analysis of these works around the treatment of violence as it relates to the problems of memory, experience, and representation. By showing how these novels and films foreground the tensions between competing modes of representation that structure the cultural politics of memory in post-dictatorship cultural productions, I illustrate the mutually influential relationship between literature, cinema, and other forms of media in shaping critical and artistic perspectives toward these debates.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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Unpublished |
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| Date: |
2 February 2017 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
29 April 2016 |
| Approval Date: |
2 February 2017 |
| Submission Date: |
21 July 2016 |
| Access Restriction: |
5 year -- Restrict access to University of Pittsburgh for a period of 5 years. |
| Number of Pages: |
206 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Hispanic Languages and Literatures |
| Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Argentina, post-dictatorship, cinema, literature, trauma, violence |
| Date Deposited: |
02 Feb 2017 23:42 |
| Last Modified: |
02 Feb 2022 06:15 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/30397 |
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