Overview

Pablo Larran 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, Larran 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 Larran 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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Author:   Laura Hatry (Post-doctoral student, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474448291

ISBN 10:   1474448291
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   30 May 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments An Introduction. Pablo Larraín: Doomed to Repeat it - Laura Hatry 1. A Cracked Gaze: Pablo Larraín’s Cultural Context - Arturo Márquez Gómez 2. The Synecdochic Series of Pablo Larraín: 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 Larraín’s Dictatorship Trilogy - Berenike Jung 4. When Violence Meets Experimentalism: Unraveling Cinematic Suture in Raúl Ruiz’s Tres Tristes Tigres (1968) and Pablo Larraín’s Post Mortem (2010) - Eduardo Ledesma 5. Gothic Memory and Ghostly Aesthetics: Post Mortem as a Horror Film - Rosana Díaz-Zambrana 6. Aestheticization of Politics and the War Machine in No (2012) by Pablo Larraín - 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 Larraín’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 Index

Reviews

"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 Larra�n is comprehensive - it investigates the early films as well as the masterpieces, El club (2015), and Neruda (2016) - and it reveals Larra�n 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"

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 Larraín is comprehensive - it investigates the early films as well as the masterpieces, El club (2015), and Neruda (2016) - and it reveals Larraín 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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Dr Laura Hatry recently completed a PhD in Hispanic Studies at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

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