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Voices of Communicative Memory in Cinema: Profesión cinero (2007) and Tren Paraguay (2011)
The disappearance of both the itinerant cinema and the train has left a void in several countryside communities in Paraguay. Hugo Gamarra Etcheverry’s Profesión Cinero, along with Mauricio Rial Banti’s Tren Paraguay, are contemporary documentaries by ...
Bruno López Petzoldt
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The Pilagá of the Argentine Chaco through an exoticizing and ethnographic lens: The Swedish documentary film Following Indian trails by the Pilcomayo River [PDF]
In this article, we explore how traveling relates to image production and how transcultural filmic representations both uphold and are sustained by a “coloniality of seeing.” We pay special attention to the historical conditions of film ...
Anne Gustavsson, Mariana Giordano
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Shaping the Guaraní Territory [PDF]
The stretch of land in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay originally occupied by the Guarani is an extended region in the hearth of the River Plate basin, whose environmental characteristics— jungles, impetuous rivers, tropical weather—suffered profound ...
Silvestri, Graciela, Silvetti, Jorge
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Independent Cinema and Globalization: the Case of Paraguay [PDF]
This assessment by Hugh O’Shaughnessy, one of the few writers to devote a book to Paraguay, crystallises its situation as one of the least known countries in Latin America. This isolation is largely due to the fact that for much of the twentieth century,
Leen, Catherine
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Triple Alliance in reverse [PDF]
Modern architecture in Latin America is not uncharted territory; it is still to be explored in depth. Within this framework I trace the development of modern architecture in Paraguay through the relationship with its regional neighbors—Argentina, Brazil,
Rivero, Clara Irina
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‘A Kind of Bliss, a Closing Eyelid, a Tiny Fainting Spell’: Zama and the Lapse Into Colour [PDF]
Lucrecia Martel has made only four feature films to date, but has nonetheless become one of the world’s most admired directors. Her work is extraordinarily sensitive to the limits of sensory perception, the limits imposed by gender roles, and the limits ...
Martin, Deborah
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Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Argentina [PDF]
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Anti-Slavery International
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FEATURE REPORT: GILLES JACOB LOOKS TO THE FUTURE The 59th Festival de Cannes (17-28 May 2006) was already preparing for its 60th birthday party in 2007.
Holloway, Ron
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Visualizing a Post-Apocalypse: Notes on New Ayoreo Cinema [PDF]
This essay describes one recent Ayoreo film and its production in order to reflect on the wider significance of lowland South American Indigenous cinema and analyses of it today.
Belisário, Bernard, Bessire, Lucas
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The Silenced Screen: Fostering a Film Industry in Paraguay [PDF]
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Leen, Catherine
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