Dissident representations in two debut films of the first years of the post-dictatorship: Otra historia de amor (Américo Ortiz de Zárate, 1986) y Abierto de 18 a 24 (Víctor Dínenzon, 1988)

Abstract

During the convulsive eighties, two films were released in Argentina that record particular approaches to sex-dissent: Otra historia de amor (Américo Ortiz de Zárate, 1986) and Abierto de 18 a 24 (Víctor Dínenzon, 1988). In the first case, that “other story” starring Jorge and Raúl breaks with some of the stereotypes that Argentininian cinema carried since the thirties. In the second, the (in)visibility of sex-dissent is thematized in a social context in which the repression (in a broad sense) did not finish dissipating. In both films, the plots advance with the imprint of the desire of their protagonists.

This paper proposes to analyze, in these filmic texts, the ways in which the subjectivity of the characters is constructed and the discourses that cross them, in a context that remained in the constant state of agitation that marked the transit between dictatorship and democracy in Argentina. In this peculiar framework, Argentinian cinema tried to project itself to the world giving samples of the recently reconquered democratic values.

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ARK: http://id.caicyt.gov.ar/ark:/s22504524/ika6ppzn6