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Ronda nocturna: Cruising the crisiscape.

Presented at ILAS postgraduate conference, 2011

This research paper, part of longer investigation into the representation of urban space in contemporary Argentine film, has a twofold concern: on one hand it asks whether it is possible to speak of films "of the city" (as opposed to films "in the city"). On the other hand it is concerned with the figure of the flâneur: how relevant is this figure today for the analysis of urban cinema?

I will attempt to address these questions with the help of Edgardo Cozarinsky’s film Ronda nocturna (2003).

Afiches and Pintadas: Wall-speak and Collateral Politics in [n]ew Argentine [c]inema

Presented at SLAS 2012

This research paper, part of a broader investigation into the representation of urban space in new Argentine cinema (1990s-2010s), is concerned with the diegetic appearance of political street-signs (afiches) and wall paintings (pintadas) in many of the films associated with this label. A familiar sight in any Argentine city, it could be argued their presence in film is not founded in choice but in coincidence or mere being-thereness. I will argue the opposite and suggest that these presences are coherent with new Argentine cinema's surreptitious modes of doing politics (also evident in dialogues, choices of characters, use of sound, narrative decisions, rejection of the allegory, etc). My argument will be sustained with what I will call "the politics of the frame" and "the politics of the depth of field".

New Argentine cinema, Argentine Cinema, Film, Moving images, and Mise en scène

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