Pablo Larrain is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean cinema. Having created a highly original cinematic language and established a focused critical dialogue about Chile's troubled contemporary history, his work presents an unflinching portrait of one of the most notorious regimes of modern Latin America (indeed, the world) and its problematic aftermath. In a straightforward, often surprising, and reliably controversial series of films, Larrain never retreats in the face of violence or the painful truths that still undergird Chilean reality.
Assessing his work in the context of film aesthetics, philosophy, history, adaptation studies and cultural studies, ReFocus: The Films of Pablo Larrain is the first book-length English-language anthology about this important director's cinema, offering a wide range of perspectives by a diverse range of international scholars.
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ReFocus. The Films of Pablo Larrain will no doubt serve as a tremendous resource with keen essays throughout as Larrain continues to make movies - and as more viewers and scholars come to familiarize themselves with his challenging works. -- Robert Wells, William Jewell College * Romanische Forschungen * This new book on Pablo Larrain is comprehensive - it investigates the early films as well as the masterpieces, El club (2015), and Neruda (2016) - and it reveals Larrain as not only Chile's most important film director but the twenty-first-century master of the precise point in cinematic space where cinematography intersects with politics.? A joy to read! -- Stephen M. Hart, University College London
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30 black and white illustrations
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
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978-1-4744-4829-1 (9781474448291)
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Dr Laura Hatry recently completed a PhD in Hispanic Studies at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
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Post-doctoral studentUniversidad Autonoma de Madrid
List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments
An Introduction. Pablo Larrain: Doomed to Repeat it - Laura Hatry
1. A Cracked Gaze: Pablo Larrain's Cultural Context - Arturo Marquez Gomez
2. The Synecdochic Series of Pablo Larrain: The Castro Cycle of Chilean Complicity in Fuga (2006), Tony Manero (2008), Post Mortem (2010), No (2012), El Club (2105), and Neruda (2016) - Amanda Eaton McMenamin
3. "Within the Limits of the Possible": Realist Aesthetics in Larrain's Dictatorship Trilogy - Berenike Jung
4. When Violence Meets Experimentalism: Unraveling Cinematic Suture in Raul Ruiz's Tres Tristes Tigres (1968) and Pablo Larrain's Post Mortem (2010) - Eduardo Ledesma
5. Gothic Memory and Ghostly Aesthetics: Post Mortem as a Horror Film - Rosana Diaz-Zambrana
6. Aestheticization of Politics and the War Machine in No (2012) by Pablo Larrain - Ignasi Gozalo-Salellas and Xavier Dapena
7. Adaptation and the Use of Documentary Material in No - Laura Hatry
8. The Blurred Image: The Aesthetics of Impunity in Pablo Larrain's No and El Club - Susana Domingo Amestoy
9. Reimagining the Left in Neruda: Inclusivity and Encounters with Secondary Characters - Rachel VanWieren and Victoria L. Garrett
10. Surfaces in Jackie: Representing Crisis and the Crisis of Representation - James Harvey
11. "When on Stage, I Am Not There, I Am Not That One." An Interview with Alfredo Castro
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