Exoticism and Otherness in Argentine Cinema: Copacabana (Martín Rejtman, 2006) and Lluvia de jaulas (César González, 2019)

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exoticism;, documentary film;, Argentine;, César González;, Martín Rejtman

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Mariano Veliz
UBA-UNA
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-3622

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The article addresses the notion of exoticism proposed by Victor Segalen to explore its power to think about some recent Argentine audiovisual productions. The analysis of the particularities of his study of the figure of the exot and his assessment of diversity constitute the basis for evaluating how the circulation of documentary films that construct an exotic point of view on otherness can dismantle certain conventional ways of approaching territories of the Otherness. Copacabana (Martín Rejtman, 2006) and Lluvia de jaulas (César González, 2019) propose exotic journeys through social universes that are strange to their filmmakers: Bolivian immigration in one case and the bourgeois city in the other. The appeal to distanced perceptual devices or the resource to the figure of wandering constitute two different modalities of appearance of exoticism, becoming a privileged disruptive strategy to dismantle the pre-eminence of sameness and propose other conceptions of otherness.

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Veliz, M. (2024). Exoticism and Otherness in Argentine Cinema: Copacabana (Martín Rejtman, 2006) and Lluvia de jaulas (César González, 2019). Heterotopías, 7(13), 1–19. Retrieved from https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/45392
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Vol. 7 No. 13 (2024): Writings on the edge of the abyss: How is the present constructed?
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Author Biography

Mariano Veliz, UBA-UNA

Mariano Veliz has a Ph.D. in History and Theory of the Arts, a Master in Discourse Analysis, Bachelor of Arts and Professor in Secondary and Higher Education from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is Professor in the Arts Department at the same institution and in the Audiovisual Arts Department at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes. He is a researcher at the Instituto de Artes del Espectáculo. There he directs a research group on contemporary Latin American cinema. He directs with Natalia Taccetta the collection Imagen e historia at the Prometeo publishing house. He published the books Figuraciones de la otredad en el cine contemporáneo (Prometeo, 2020) and Cines latinoamericanos y transición democrática (Prometeo, 2019). He is director of the academic journal En la otra isla. Revista de audiovisual latinoamericano.

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