Geoffrey Maguire’s research while affiliated with University of Cambridge and other places

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Publications (9)


Introduction: Visualising Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema—Gender, Class and Politics
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July 2018

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3 Citations

Geoffrey Maguire

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Rachel Randall

This introduction situates contemporary cultural representations of adolescence in Latin America within their filmic and socio-historic contexts. Attention is paid to recent developments in cinematic theories concerning child protagonists, before productive distinctions are drawn between the emotional registers and epistemological possibilities of childhood and adolescence. The introduction places particular importance on the role of gender in the formation of on-screen teenage subjectivities, and discusses how cinematic portrayals of teenage protagonists have often conceived of adolescence as a period of both creative transition and threatening unknowability. The introduction concludes with an overview of the structure and scope of the book.



New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

January 2018

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4 Citations

This volume explores the recent ‘adolescent turn’ in contemporary Latin American cinema, challenging many of the underlying assumptions about the nature of youth and distinguishing adolescence as a distinct and vital area of study. Its contributors examine the narrative and political potential of teenage protagonists in a range of recent films from the region, acknowledging the distinct emotional registers that are at play throughout adolescence and releasing teenage subjectivities from restrictive critical and theoretical emphases on theories of childhood. As the first academic study to examine the figure of the adolescent in contemporary Latin American film, New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema thus presents a timely and innovative analysis of issues of sexuality and gender, political and domestic violence and social class, and will be of significant interest to students and researchers in Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies, World Cinema and Childhood Studies.


Hijos guerrilleros: Childhood Militancy and Cinematic Memory

August 2017

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This Chapter engages with debates over creativity and subjectivity in postmemorial cinematic representations of violence. Through an analysis of Benjamín Ávila’s Infancia clandestina (2011) and Paula Markovitch’s El premio (2011), the chapter examines how these directors rehistoricize and repoliticize of the figure of the 1970s left-wing revolutionary. The chapter argues that, rather than assuming the role of innocent victims, the child protagonists in these films are invested with social and political agency, which manifests itself principally through their critical attitudes towards their parents’ revolutionary politics and through their awareness of the danger it poses to their own domestic safety. The chapter ultimately argues that both films subvert and complicate any straightforward idea of victimhood, denying any heightened spectatorial identification by visually distancing the viewer from the child victim.


Introduction: The Second Generation in Contemporary Argentina

August 2017

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The Introduction places contemporary debates surrounding cultural memory and postmemory within the context of post-dictatorship Argentina. Close attention is paid to how various actors on the national stage—for example, ex-militants, ex-military officers, human rights organisations, writers and directors—have sought to present themselves at different stages of this historical trajectory as victims of the dictatorship’s repression. Three significant issues related to contemporary Argentine cultural memory are highlighted: debates surrounding the objectivity, or ‘truth’, of memory; tensions inherent in the transmission of this memory from one generation to the next; and the application of European theories of cultural memory in the Argentine context. An analysis of Albertina Carri’s Los rubios (2003) is used to introduce the four key concepts that will be explored in the subsequent chapters of the monograph.


Conclusion: The Politics of Postmemory

August 2017

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1 Citation

The Conclusion reaffirms the considerable impact that recent developments in memory studies have had within Argentine cultural studies and acknowledges the theoretical debt to Marianne Hirsch’s work on postmemory. By drawing attention to emergent forms of cultural expression in Argentina, as well as to the ongoing politicization of cultural memory, the conclusion reaffirms the need to continually refine and re-evaluate the critical and theoretical tools we employ to study memory processes within the contemporary Argentine context.


‘HIJOS de una misma historia’: Identity Politics and Parody in the Kirchner Era

August 2017

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This chapter examines two provocative texts that explicitly and critically interact with Kirchnerist politics and the work of human rights organisations, namely Félix Bruzzone’s Los topos (2008) and Mariana Eva Perez’s Diario de una Princesa Montonera (2012). The chapter argues that both authors undermine the politicisation and commercialisation of personal narratives of grief on the national stage and draw attention to the danger of transforming the experience of orphanhood into a vehicle for political activism. By focusing on the use of humour and parody within these works, the chapter also draws on the work of Gabriel Gatti in order to discuss how each author introduces a breach within the political and identitarian thinking of the postmemory generation in contemporary Argentina.


Performing Loss: Materiality and the Repertoire of Absence

August 2017

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This chapter focuses on ideas of generational agency and performance in Lola Arias’ Mi vida después (2009) and a range of contemporary Argentine photography (2001–2013). Through a discussion of the work of Diana Taylor, the chapter questions whether a new understanding of how memory is transferred between and within generations in contemporary Argentina may allow us to address the on-going tensions between collective public memory and individual, private narrations of the past. The chapter engages with recent concepts of materiality and performance in order to argue that such dynamic and performative interpretations of the past allow the artists discussed to move beyond melancholic repetition and towards a productive, present understanding of the position that this history occupies in their own lives.


The Copyright Generation: Historical Memory and the Children of the Disappeared

August 2017

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This chapter discusses the use of historical memory by Argentina’s post-dictatorship generation through two novels, Soy un bravo piloto de la nueva China (2011) by Ernesto Semán and El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia (2011) by Patricio Pron. By considering the dynamic interplay between the subjective processes of memory and the supposed objectivity of history in these texts, the chapter engages with European and Latin American debates that posit memory and history as complementary rather than opposing concepts. The chapter then focuses specifically on contemporary debates surrounding the application of theories of postmemory in situations other than post-Holocaust Europe, and acknowledges Susannah Radstone’s (2012) assertion of the need to ‘Bring Memory Home’ to its original socio-political and cultural context.