Masculinities in Contemporary Argentine Popular Cinema

Rocha, Carolina

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“…The immediate result of enforced disappearance was the painful loss of control over the destiny of their children and over their own lives (Taylor 1997). This uncertainty and lack of control were surely exacerbated by gendered ideas of patriarchal masculinity which are deeply engrained in an Argentinean culture that portrays fathers as the main physical protectors of children (Rocha 2012). In fact, these same views of men as ''protectors'' were manipulated by the military government to justify the political violence and extermination of political activists, actions which were explained as ''protecting'' the core values of the nation (Navarro 2001).…”

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Fatherhood in the Context of Political Violence

Strier

2014

Men and Masculinities

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Grounded on a documentary film-based qualitative research methodology, the article undertakes a social constructivist theoretical analysis of the story of a group of Argentinean fathers whose children were victims of enforced disappearance. It focuses specifically on the impact of the massive use of enforced disappearance on fathers by the Military government in Argentina between 1976 and 1983. The premeditated use of this tactic gave birth to a protest movement named ''Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo,'' established by a group of mothers whose children were abducted. Whereas the mothers' role in the context of this historical period of political violence was extensively documented, the question of the fathers' role remains unclear. Based on ''Padres de la Plaza: 10 Recorridos Posibles'' by director Joaquin Daglio, a documentary film that portrayed the stories of ten fathers whose children were abducted, the article examines the experience of fatherhood in the context of political violence, the impact of enforced disappearance on these fathers, the role of the fathers in the Mothers' protest movement, and the construction of fatherhood under these particular historical and personal circumstances. The article shows how fatherhood is experienced and transformed in the contexts of political violence, specifically in contexts of the institutionalized, state-sponsored violation of human and civil rights.

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Fatherhood in the Context of Political Violence

Strier

2014

Men and Masculinities

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“…In the early 1990s, the crisis of white/European identity among the middle classes was deepening and President Carlos Menem sought to achieve legitimacy by proposing to make Argentina part of the First World through the adoption of free-market neoliberal policies aimed at bringing an imagined modern globalization to the country (Aguiló, 2018; Rocha, 2012). Against this backdrop, the Argentine state took the first step into a path that would eventually end up incorporating what could now be termed homonationalism as an official ideology.…”

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Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos, and the politics of queer memory in Argentina

Insausti

Ben

2023

Memory Studies

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Although homonationalism is a fundamental category in queer studies, it has never been used to understand the history of the Argentine lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender movement and the emergence of a hegemonic queer memory based on the self-representation of Argentina as a “European-like” and “white” nation that often claims to be different from “the rest” of Latin America. This article examines the history of the Argentine construction of whiteness to understand hegemonic queer memory today and analyze why the 1976–1983 dictatorship has been hyper-memorialized, while state violence against queer people in democratic times is downplayed. We also refer to homonationalism to understand the success of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender rights revolution and present a discussion of the relationship between lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender politics and the construction of queer memory. As homonationalism shaped the formation of a hegemonic queer memory in the twenty-first century, alternative memories of police harassment of travestis and homosexual men after and before the dictatorship have been hidden in plain sight through reframing, displacement, temporal transpositions, and other forms of scripting.

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“…21 Afraksturinn varð sá að allt fram á níunda áratuginn var þess vaenst að kvikmyndir álfunnar hefðu áberandi samfélags-og stjórnmálalega skírskotun (Sarlo 2003, 33). En þá komu ungir kvikmyndagerðarmenn fram á sjónarsviðið og hófu að segja sögur sínar á persónulegri nótum og fjalla um tilteknar aðstaeður og ástand með því að beina sjónum að einkalífi fólks, staðbundnum aðstaeðum og byggja efnistök á einstaklingsbundinni reynslu (Rocha 2012a(Rocha , 2012b. 22 Og þegar myndir eins og Kamíla, eftir argentínska leikstjórann Maríu Luísu Bember, var tilnefnd til Óskarsverðlauna sem besta erlenda myndin árið 1984, og mynd Luis Puezo, Opinbera útgáfan (s. La historia oficial), einnig frá Argentínu, var tilnefnd árið eftir, var brotið blað í kvikmyndasögu álfunnar (King 2000, 79-97;Shaw 2001;2007).…”

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Innsýn og aukin færni: Að "lesa" menningu þjóða með aðstoð kvikmynda

Garðarsdóttir¹

2022

Milli Mála

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Masculinities in Contemporary Argentine Popular Cinema

Cited by 13 publications

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Fatherhood in the Context of Political Violence

Fatherhood in the Context of Political Violence

Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos, and the politics of queer memory in Argentina

Innsýn og aukin færni: Að "lesa" menningu þjóða með aðstoð kvikmynda

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