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- Title
TURF WARS: CONTESTED SPACE IN THREE JEWISH LATIN AMERICAN FILMS.
- Authors
LINDSTROM, NAOMI
- Abstract
This examination of three Jewish Latin American films from the early twenty- first century focuses on the ways in which spaces that are either explicitly or implicitly claimed as Jewish become sites of conflict between characters with differing outlooks and agendas. The films are: Nora's Will (Cinco días sin Nora, dir. Mariana Chenillo, Mexico, 2008), The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (O ano em que meus pais saíram de férias, dir. Cao Hamburger, Brazil, 2006), and Lost Embrace (El abrazo partido, dir. Daniel Burman, Argentina, 2004). In some scenes, a character or characters seek to control dwelling places stringently, while their opponents try to create a more relaxed and lived-in environment. Linked to this struggle is the desire for the inhabited or intimate space that Gaston Bachelard characterizes in his noted The Poetics of Space (original 1958); another issue is differing concepts of what constitutes a Jewish home and how its Jewishness should be signaled. All three films have disappointed critics looking for social criticism; this essay addresses the issues raised by these comments.
- Subjects
JEWS in motion pictures; LATIN Americans in motion pictures; YEAR My Parents Went on Vacation, The (Film); LOST Embrace (Film); NORA'S Will (Film)
- Publication
Post Script, 2019, Vol 38, Issue 2/3, p45
- ISSN
0277-9897
- Publication type
Article