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Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott
Protocol 1
Cinema and Literature
Aesthetical
change
and
the
transformation
of
Latin
American
modernity
of
the
new
working
class)
that
could
not
be
the
repressive
State
of
the
19th
century
(el
the
exhaustion
of
the
Chilean
Road
to
American
reformist
(or
revolutionary)
political
insurrectional
processes
of
similar
nature,
and
the
Chilean,
the
revolutionary
and
the
counter-
the
republics
deferred
beginning
have
of
been
condition
the
XIX
oriented
regarding
century,
to
the
Latin
correct
European
its
American
so-called
(and
lastly,
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American)
model
of
society.
oppositions
such
as
landscapes
and
metropolitan
Consequently,
Civilization
and
binary
Barbarism,
areas,
rural
developed
and
sought
legitimation
understanding
of
appealing
history,
as
to
this
civilization
normal
functioning
representative
powers.
of
From
Constitutions,
a
States
socio-economic
and
viewpoint,
to
economic
modernization
(urbanization
and
modernity
in
full
(a
cultural
version
of
the
economic
idea
of
modernization.
As
complementary
engagement
were
all
influenced
by
the
Cuban
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and
It
technology
would
be
expresses
relevant
itself
to
keep
in
in
different
mind
this
overlapping
technological
between
dimensions
the
of
aesthetical,
the
Latin
cultural
American
and
social
imagination.
After
the
Cuban
revolution
(a
turning
point
in
Latin
countries
in
the
region
produced
radical
but
the
reduction
of
the
State,
the
liberation of economy, and the implementation of the socalled neo-liberal policies at large. This also affected
Latin American cinema, at least in two ways:
1) The reduction of financial supports from the State,
if not its total cancellation, regarding the national
industry
of
cinema.
This
reduction
cancellation
the
subsequent
necessity
for
new
financial
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testimonial
cinema
became
fundamental
features
of
the
sixties,
in
this
new
context.
2) Cultural transformations related to the end of the
Cold War period, and the transitions to democracy in
the whole region, by the 1990s, were also important to
redefine
cinemas
new
face.
The
aesthetics
of
the
to
of
the
the
twentieth
so-called
century
modernism.
are
very
much
Modernism
(and
and
improvisation
that
implied
between
modernization
and
modernism.
The
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Cultural
critics
cultural
have
elaborated
transformations
with
upon
categories
Latin
such
American
as
social
as
tendency
architecture
(and
that
art
in
opposed
the
general),
glamour
of
modern
post-modernism
soon
late
categories
modernity,
to
express
post-industrial
such
society
transformation.
are
As
Fredric Jameson has put it early in the nineties, postmodernism could be considered as the cultural logic of late
capitalism.
process
of
disarticulation
between
culture
and
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politics
(which
main
example
is
the
current
crisis
of
characterizes
liberal
the
flexible
institutions
of
curriculum
higher
of
the
education).
neoThis
urban
realities
associated
with
the
impact
of
This
also
implies
aesthetical
change
production:
in
the
the
style
breaking
and
of
goals
the
of
lineal
itself,
emergence
of
the
new
de-historization
phenomena
of
related
the
to
plots,
and
the
globalization
and
as
comedy
and
the
aesthetic
of
cynicism
will
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literature,
and
understanding
finally,
practices
what
to
of
do
regarding
history?
aesthetics
with
a
How
to
reformulate
and
politics?
contemporary
non-conventional
visual
our
And,
arts
understanding
and
of
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