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The short film as an initial promoter of modern cinema in Brazil and Chile. Between aesthetic research and social commitment

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  • Javier Cossalter Universidad de Buenos Aires
No. 12 (2019): Abril-septiembre. Dossier: "El campo audiovisual latinoamericano en la era digital: disputas y desafíos"
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2019.52424

Abstract

This article deals with modern Latin American cinema through the study of the Brazilian and Chilean university short film. The renewal of the regional cinema during the sixties was traditionally linked to the "new national cinemas" and the phenomenon known as New Latin American Cinema, fully constituted at the end of the decade. However, the central postulates of this modernization –the production on the margin of industry together with the articulation of aesthetic experimentation and a socio-political approach– were set in motion by the short film from the mid and late fifties. In this sense, the Brazilian and Chilean examples are studied comparatively in order to unravel similarities and divergences in the role of the short film and its modern components. The work is organized in two sections. In the first, a contextual analysis is carried out to focus on the university work of the Centro Popular de Cultura and Cine Experimental as promoters of the renovation. In the second one, a comparative textual analysis of a corpus of university shorts from both countries is made taking into account formal ranges –enunciative self-consciousness– and semantic ones –social commitment with the popular sectors–. Finally, the position of the short film as the initial manager of modern cinema is confirmed by highlighting the innovative characters generally associated with the feature emblematic films of modern cinema

Keywords:

latinamerican short film, Modern Cinema, University, Aesthetic Experimentation, Socio-political Aproach

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Cossalter, J. (2019). The short film as an initial promoter of modern cinema in Brazil and Chile. Between aesthetic research and social commitment. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (12), 17–54. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2019.52424
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