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Abstract
A Trail of Fire for Political Cinema is an edited collection that closely analyses La hora de los hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces) (Getino and Solanas, 1968) within the context of 1960s Argentina and the socio-political landscape of the time.
2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the film’s premiere. As the film is re-examined with the hindsight of 50 years, attention is also paid to the corpus of political documentaries made between 1968 to 1976, the latter of which also marked the last coup d’état in Argentina, to emphasize formal and thematic trends in relation to the social context. In order to highlight The Hour of the Furnaces’ contemporary relevance as a form of politically engaged activism, the book will also look at Fernando Solanas’ documentary output in the twenty-first century.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Half Title | i | ||
| Title | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Introduction: The Place of The Hour of the Furnaces in World Cinema (and in the Political World) | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1: To Invent Our Revolution: An Aesthetic-Political Analysis of The Hour of the Furnaces | 23 | ||
| Chapter 2: Fanon and The Hour of the Furnaces | 47 | ||
| Chapter 3: A Look from Literature on Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino’s The Hour of the Furnaces | 65 | ||
| Chapter 4: Popular Music and Political Militancy in The Hour of the Furnaces | 79 | ||
| Chapter 5: The Hour of the Furnaces’ Sexualized History | 95 | ||
| Chapter 6: The Hour of the Furnaces, May 68, and the Pesaro International Film Festival | 119 | ||
| Chapter 7: Tracing the Winding Road of The Hour of the Furnaces in the First World | 135 | ||
| Chapter 8: Trails of Ink: An Approximation to the Historiography on The Hour of the Furnaces | 159 | ||
| Chapter 9: The Dialogue between The Hour of the Furnaces and the Tradition of Argentine Documentary | 177 | ||
| Chapter 10: Solanas’ Recent Documentaries | 189 | ||
| Chapter 11: Experimenting with TV: The Hour of the Furnaces at the Crossroads of Cinematic Experimentalism and Video Art | 211 | ||
| Chapter 12: The Hour of the Furnaces as an Essay Film | 229 | ||
| Afterthoughts on The Hour of the Furnaces | 247 | ||
| Contributors | 257 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |