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- Title
THE RETURN TO THE SAVAGE ERA: JEWISH SIGNIFIERS AND VIOLENCE IN DAMIÁN SZIFRON'S WILD TALES.
- Authors
RAN, AMALIA
- Abstract
To discuss Jewish Latin America cinema often seems to allude to an esoteric and neglected field due to the double ambiguity concerning what is it that defines Jewish cinema as such, on the one hand, and the perception of Latin American film as marginal in comparison with a Hollywood film industry on the other. Jewish signifiers in Jewish Latin American films represent multiple innovative perspectives; thus, marking a shift from traditional imaginaries-from representing the Jewish signifier as an element of difference-to representations of Jewishness hardly discussed before. The Jewish signifier plays a new role: no longer a marginalized, dislocated figure, but a protagonistic, even a prototypical one, and hence, a representation of social and cultural trends in the general society. In this essay, I wish to study these new imaginaries by focusing on the well-acclaimed Argentine film Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes, 2014), directed by the Jewish Argentine director Damián Szifron.
- Subjects
ARGENTINA; JEWS in motion pictures; LATIN Americans in motion pictures; CULTURE in motion pictures; ESOTERICISM; MOTION pictures
- Publication
Post Script, 2019, Vol 38, Issue 2/3, p86
- ISSN
0277-9897
- Publication type
Article