Refocus: the Films of Pablo Larrain

ISBN-13: 9781474448291 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 248 str.

Laura Hatry

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Pablo Larrain is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean cinema. Having created a highly original cinematic language and established a focused critical dialogue about Chile's troubled contemporary history, his work presents an unflinching portrait of one of the most notorious regimes of modern Latin America (indeed, the world) and its problematic aftermath. In a straightforward, often surprising, and reliably controversial series of films, Larrain never retreats in the face of violence or the painful truths that still undergird Chilean reality. Assessing his work in the context of film aesthetics, philosophy, history, adaptation studies and cultural studies, ReFocus: The Films of Pablo Larrain is the first book-length English-language anthology about this important director's cinema, offering a wide range of perspectives by a diverse range of international scholars.

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List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments

An Introduction. Pablo Larraín: Doomed to Repeat it - Laura Hatry

1. A Cracked Gaze: Pablo Larraín’s Cultural Context - Arturo Márquez Gómez

2. The Synecdochic Series of Pablo Larraín: The Castro Cycle of Chilean Complicity in Fuga (2006), Tony Manero (2008), Post Mortem (2010), No (2012), El Club (2105), and Neruda (2016) - Amanda Eaton McMenamin

3. "Within the Limits of the Possible": Realist Aesthetics in Larraín’s Dictatorship Trilogy - Berenike Jung

4. When Violence Meets Experimentalism: Unraveling Cinematic Suture in Raúl Ruiz’s Tres Tristes Tigres (1968) and Pablo Larraín’s Post Mortem (2010) - Eduardo Ledesma

5. Gothic Memory and Ghostly Aesthetics: Post Mortem as a Horror Film - Rosana Díaz-Zambrana

6. Aestheticization of Politics and the War Machine in No (2012) by Pablo Larraín - Ignasi Gozalo-Salellas and Xavier Dapena

7. Adaptation and the Use of Documentary Material in No - Laura Hatry

8. The Blurred Image: The Aesthetics of Impunity in Pablo Larraín’s No and El Club - Susana Domingo Amestoy

9. Reimagining the Left in Neruda: Inclusivity and Encounters with Secondary Characters - Rachel VanWieren and Victoria L. Garrett

10. Surfaces in Jackie: Representing Crisis and the Crisis of Representation - James Harvey

11. "When on Stage, I Am Not There, I Am Not That One." An Interview with Alfredo Castro

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