In 1923, after producing the adaptation of his brother Josué’s best-selling novel La vendedora de Harrods (1919), Alfredo Quesada made his directorial debut with the film Martín Fierro. It was based on the poem by José Hernández (1872 and 1879), which had been canonized shortly before. Although the film is now lost, this essay aims to examine its reception through different publications of the time and to place it within the framework of a film field that in the beginning of the 1920’s was already autonomously constituted. In particular, this work focuses on the interdependence of two fundamental demands of the field: the requests for movement and projection, defined according to Gilles Deleuze and Jean-Michel Frodon, respectively. Consider...
It’s turning 150 years the publishing of El Gaucho Martín Fierro, the country’s first literary succe...
El trabajo aborda dos transposiciones de textos de la literatura argentina del siglo XIX que fueron ...
Films are cultural representations of societies that are both their producers and consumers. We live...
En 1923, luego de producir la versión cinematográfica del best-seller La vendedora de Harrods (191...
En 1923, luego de producir la versión cinematográfica del best-seller La vendedora de Harrods (1919)...
Since the beginnings of cinema, intense debate appeared. Speceally the avantgards took radical posit...
In 1928, Basque entrepreneur Julian De Ajuria produced a film that would become a rara avis in the h...
This article analyzes three moments between the decades of 1930 and 1940 that allow for an understan...
Released in 1915, Nobleza gaucha is the first blockbuster in Argentine film history. Per critical co...
This paper examines, in the first place, the relationship between the circus versions of Gutiérrez’s...
By the end of the 1930s, as a reaction to the critics of popular movies and to the demand for a new ...
This article is aimed at reconstructing part of the history of Argentine documentary filmmaking by a...
Towards the end of Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976-1983), different documentary makers ...
El fotógrafo, periodista, escritor y cineasta Alejandro Del Conte es hoy célebre por su rol fundamen...
El cine de ficción se ha transformado en un medio masivo a partir del cual se divulgan determinadas ...
It’s turning 150 years the publishing of El Gaucho Martín Fierro, the country’s first literary succe...
El trabajo aborda dos transposiciones de textos de la literatura argentina del siglo XIX que fueron ...
Films are cultural representations of societies that are both their producers and consumers. We live...
En 1923, luego de producir la versión cinematográfica del best-seller La vendedora de Harrods (191...
En 1923, luego de producir la versión cinematográfica del best-seller La vendedora de Harrods (1919)...
Since the beginnings of cinema, intense debate appeared. Speceally the avantgards took radical posit...
In 1928, Basque entrepreneur Julian De Ajuria produced a film that would become a rara avis in the h...
This article analyzes three moments between the decades of 1930 and 1940 that allow for an understan...
Released in 1915, Nobleza gaucha is the first blockbuster in Argentine film history. Per critical co...
This paper examines, in the first place, the relationship between the circus versions of Gutiérrez’s...
By the end of the 1930s, as a reaction to the critics of popular movies and to the demand for a new ...
This article is aimed at reconstructing part of the history of Argentine documentary filmmaking by a...
Towards the end of Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976-1983), different documentary makers ...
El fotógrafo, periodista, escritor y cineasta Alejandro Del Conte es hoy célebre por su rol fundamen...
El cine de ficción se ha transformado en un medio masivo a partir del cual se divulgan determinadas ...
It’s turning 150 years the publishing of El Gaucho Martín Fierro, the country’s first literary succe...
El trabajo aborda dos transposiciones de textos de la literatura argentina del siglo XIX que fueron ...
Films are cultural representations of societies that are both their producers and consumers. We live...