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ReFocus: The International Directors Series

ReFocus: The Films of Pablo Larraín

Edited by Laura Hatry

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The first English-language collection of critical essays on the Chilean director Pablo Larraín
  • Provides cultural and historical context for Larraín’s films, including consideration of his own influences
  • Assesses Larraín’s standing in Chilean film and his cinematic style through close analysis of all his works
  • Analyses Larraín’s oeuvre in the context of film aesthetics, philosophy, history, adaptation studies, and cultural studies

Pablo Larraín 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, Larraín 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 Larraín 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.

Reviews

ReFocus. The Films of Pablo Larrain will no doubt serve as a tremendous resource with keen essays throughout as Larrain continues to make movies – and as more viewers and scholars come to familiarize themselves with his challenging works.
This new book on Pablo Larraín is comprehensive – it investigates the early films as well as the masterpieces, El club (2015), and Neruda (2016) – and it reveals Larraín as not only Chile’s most important film director but the twenty-first-century master of the precise point in cinematic space where cinematography intersects with politics.　 A joy to read!
Table of contents

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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About the author

Laura Hatry

Dr Laura Hatry recently completed a PhD in Hispanic Studies at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

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