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Huaso Romance As Neoliberal Reform In Sebastián Silva's La Nana, Stephen Buttes
Huaso Romance As Neoliberal Reform In Sebastián Silva's La Nana, Stephen Buttes
Stephen M Buttes
Building on the work of recent critics, this essay asserts that the narrative of illness and recovery at the center of Sebastián Silva's film La nana (2009) can be understood as allegorically working through the contradictions between economy and culture in contemporary Chile. Diverging from these critics, however, the essay argues that the film operates its critique by mobilizing the narrative structures that characterized Chilean criollista novels, and in particular the huaso romance narrative. Far from arguing that the film represents a nationalist or folkloric take on contemporary Chile, the essay asserts that Silva reconfigures the huaso romance to construct …
Response To "Money Is In The Eye Of The Beholder", Stephen M. Buttes
Response To "Money Is In The Eye Of The Beholder", Stephen M. Buttes
Stephen M Buttes
Beginning with the editor's discussion of an episode of Project Runway and its relationship to contemporary theories of affect in art, my response to Todd Cronan's piece questions his application of affect theory in the particular instance of the episode he discusses and then draws it together with a discussion of the novel Baroni: A Journey, by Argentine author Sergio Chejfec, to explore critiques of the economic logic of neoliberalism through aesthetic objects.
De Sombras Y Umbrales: Ansiedad Geográfica En Boca De Lobo, Stephen Buttes
De Sombras Y Umbrales: Ansiedad Geográfica En Boca De Lobo, Stephen Buttes
Stephen M Buttes
This work examines the relationship between geography, the body, memory and aesthetics in the representation of urban poverty and the global economic processes of neoliberalism in the novel Boca de lobo (2000) by Argentine author Sergio Chejfec.