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An in-depth study of the presence and representation of Jews in contemporary Argentine film, focusing on films shot since the year 2000.

Jews in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History --- History and criticism --- Argentine cinema. --- Jewishness. --- Jews. --- films. --- identity issues. --- national identity.

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This book engages with representations of social crisis in Argentine fictional cinema between 1998 and 2005, a period when Argentina experienced a deep economic crisis that brought about significant changes in politics, culture, society and the arts. It focuses on the ways in which cinema interpreted and represented both contemporary and long-established issues within national and social discourse, while re-assessing notions of national identity, culture and class.
Despite a growing body of scholarship on Argentine film published in English over the past few years, the role of more conventional films aimed at the public at large remains underexplored. By combining close textual analysis of films with the study of their cultural context, this book argues that fictional cinema at large addressed predominantly middle-class audiences, offering both reflective and divergent views on social reality that enriched the cultural arena in which Argentineans could reflect on their past, their daily life, and their relationship with the other. In this sense cinema helped Argentine people to learn to live in democracy.

Santiago Oyarzabal is Associate Fellow in Hispanic Studies at the University of Warwick.

Motion pictures --- National characteristics, Argentine, in motion pictures. --- Culture in motion pictures. --- Social classes in motion pictures. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History. --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- Argentina. --- Argenṭinah --- Argenṭine --- Argentine Confederation --- Argentine Nation --- Argentine Republic --- Aruzenchin --- Confederación Argentina --- Nación Argentina --- República Argentina --- South America --- Argentine Cinema. --- Argentinean society. --- contemporary issues. --- crisis representation. --- cultural change. --- cultural reflection. --- middle-class audiences. --- national identity. --- social discourse.