Dark Rurality and Dark Ecology in Recent Argentine Cinema
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Carlos M. Amador [1]
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[1] Michigan Technological University
Michigan Technological University
City of Houghton, Estados Unidos
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- Localización: A Contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina, ISSN-e 1548-7083, Vol. 16, Nº. 3, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Spring 2019), págs. 427-455
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This article proposes a reading of a melancholy or dark ecology in the cinematic aesthetics of films by Albertina Carri and Lisandro Alonso. I argue that these films are examples of a new ecological ethos that filmically imagines the indissolubility between non-human and human ecology as part of the rural, thus recasting traditional images of nature in the service of a new nationalism. The rural serves as the image bank for an inexhaustible mesh of ecological relations, tied by the darkness of infinitude. I show how these recent accounts of rural exhaustion and neoliberal control over the Argentine landscape simultaneously reimagine the rural as a source of density, vital, and ecological expression. I also argue that this reading represents a new modality for cognitive mapping that includes the filmic representation of the ecological sphere that goes beyond the mere description of neoliberalism
