ReFocus : the films of Pablo Larraín /edited by Laura Hatry.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (xii, 235 pages) : illustrations
- ReFocus: the International Directors Series .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
An Introduction. Pablo Larraín: Doomed to Repeat It -- 1 A Cracked Gaze: Pablo Larraín's Cultural Context -- 2 The Synecdochic Series of Pablo Larraín: The Castro Cycle of Chilean Complicity in Fuga, Tony Manero, Post Mortem, No, El Club, and Neruda -- 3 "Within the Limits of the Possible": Realist Aesthetics in Pablo Larraín's Dictatorship Trilogy -- 4 When Violence Meets Experimentalism: Unraveling Cinematic Suture in Raúl Ruiz's Tres Tristes Tigres and Pablo Larraín's Post Mortem -- 5 Gothic Memory and Ghostly Aesthetics: Post Mortem as a Horror Film -- 6 Aestheticization of Politics and the War Machine in No by Pablo Larraín -- 7 Adaptation and the Use of Documentary Material in No -- 8 The Blurred Image: The Aesthetics of Impunity in Pablo Larraín's No and El Club -- 9 Reimagining the Left in Neruda: Inclusivity and Encounters with Secondary Characters -- 10 Surfaces in Jackie: Representing Crisis and the Crisis of Representation -- 11 "When on Stage, I Am Not There, I Am Not That One" An Interview with Alfredo Castro by Arturo Márquez-Gómez.
Assessing his work in the context of film aesthetics, philosophy, history, adaptation studies and cultural studies, this 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.
9781474448307
Larraín, Pablo--Criticism and interpretation.
Motion picture producers and directors--Chile--Biography.