O cinema como ação política: militância, identidade e memória no filme Operación Masacre, de Jorge Cedrón (Argentina, 1972)
Year: 2020
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This work aims to analyze clandestine cinema as an instrument and political manifest. The object and main source of this dissertation comprises the Argentinean film Operación Masacre, of 1972, directed by Jorge Cedrón during the dictatorship of Argentinean Revolution, considering his transit on the new peronist leftist and the movement of Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. The film was based on the investigative journalism book written by Rodolfo Walsh about the shooting of more than ten men during the Liberation Revolution, which deposed Perón and outlawed peronism. During the 1960s and 1970s, it was emerged the idea of revolutionary changes expressed in the political, social and cultural field in Latin America, which served as the basis for armed militancy in the streets and in art. The experience, the feeling and the memory project of Argentinean peronists are the main support to understand the referred production.
Author: Mirela Machado
Language: Portuguese
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W3086397068